Seems like an excellent and appropriate idea to me, but it is not something that Cofer Black would ever seriously say.
Bruce http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15175003%255E401, 00.html Bring home bin Laden's head, CIA told >From correspondents in Washington 04may05 US spy chiefs ordered agents to deliver Osama bin Laden's severed head in a box of dry ice and hoist heads of other al-Qaeda leaders on pikes, a retired field officer has disclosed. As the US reeled in shock days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, former CIA officer Gary Schroen was sent to Afghanistan to help the opposition Northern Alliance to topple bin Laden's hosts the Taliban. He told National Public Radio (NPR) in an interview broadcast yesterday and today that he stopped by the office of then Director of the CIA counter-terrorism centre Cofer Black for final instructions. He was told : "Your basic marching orders are to link up with the Northern Alliance and get their co-operation military and they will take on the Taliban." "When we break the Taliban, your job is to capture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice." Mr Schroen was also ordered to kill other al-Qaeda leaders suspected in the plot in which terrorists slammed hijacked airliners into New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon killing nearly 3000 people. It was the first time in 30 years with the CIA he been ordered to set out to kill a target rather than try to bring them in alive, Mr Schroen told NPR's Morning Edition program. He said he told Mr Black: "Sir, those are the clearest orders I have ever received, I can certainly make pikes out in the field but I don't know what I'll do about dry ice to bring the head back, but we will manage something". A week after the September 11 attacks, US President George W. Bush told reporters he wanted Osama bin Laden and recalled Wild West posters that demanded suspects "dead or alive". But the suspected terror mastermind was never caught and Mr Schroen told NPR that CIA operatives found it hard to get close enough to strike bin Laden, partly due to his ability to move quickly around the country. "We could never tell where the man was going to be that night," said Mr Schroen, who is promoting a new book and believes bin Laden is now hiding out in tribal areas of Pakistan. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
