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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Bin Laden probably alive, White House says January 27, 2002 Posted: 4:50 PM EST (2150 GMT) Bin Laden's whereabouts remain unknown three months into the U.S. anti-terror campaign. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden is likely alive and will be caught, top Bush administration officials said Sunday, but his capture isn't necessary to disrupt global terrorism, they stressed. "I think we can probably prevent future attacks against the United States even if we don't get bin Laden," Vice President Dick Cheney said on ABC's "This Week." "I want bin Laden because of what he did on 9/11." Bin Laden, the No. 1 suspected terrorist behind the attacks on New York and Washington, has been the subject of a massive manhunt since September 11. His whereabouts remain a mystery. Some Bush administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, have begun saying recently that the war on terrorism can be successful without catching bin Laden. Cheney: "Bin Laden himself isn't that big a threat." "Bin Laden by himself isn't that big a threat," Cheney said. "Bin Laden connected to this worldwide organization of terror is a threat. We're going to go after him, but we're also after the network." Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, said this month that he believes bin Laden is dead as a result of kidney disease. But Cheney said he was skeptical. "If he were dead, there'd be more indications of it than we've seen. ...There'd be more noise in the system about his demise and about the future of the organization if, in fact, he were no longer there," Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday." White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card offered similar comments. Card: "Our overall objective is to defeat terrorism...not to get Osama bin Laden." "We know he's on the run," Card said on CNN's "Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer." "I do not know for a fact that he's alive. I happen to believe he's probably alive." Card also appeared to downplay the significance of capturing bin Laden, even though he vowed the United States would "get this evildoer." "But understand that that's not the overall objective," Card said. "Our overall objective is to defeat terrorism, wherever it is around the world. And so, our objective is not to get Osama bin Laden." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
