I was reading the "what do you Rangers think of this?" thread and I immediately thought about this new show that's on Discovery (I think) called "Secret CIA Files" or "Inside the CIA" or something like that. In this one particular episode, this ex-operative was talking about how they had Bin-Laden pretty much locked down, but then the Haj that they were working with turned on them and wouldn't let them pursue him any longer, so they called up command and told them that Bin-Laden was heading for the Pakistani border and to send in Rangers to intercept him. As most of you know, that never happened thanks to our top brass as they were described in that article.
Aside from that, you guys may have heard that CIA had a lock on him years before 9/11 even took place, but they saw a C-130 at the location where he was at, read the identifying numbers off the side of the plane back to command and Clinton called a no-go because the plane belonged to some rich oil tycoon Arabic prince that controlled our oil supply in some way and he didn't want to piss him off by raiding his palace or whatever it was; gotta love politics.
Aside from that, you guys may have heard that CIA had a lock on him years before 9/11 even took place, but they saw a C-130 at the location where he was at, read the identifying numbers off the side of the plane back to command and Clinton called a no-go because the plane belonged to some rich oil tycoon Arabic prince that controlled our oil supply in some way and he didn't want to piss him off by raiding his palace or whatever it was; gotta love politics.
