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CIA chief says he has ‘excellent idea’ where Osama bin Laden is
06:31 AM EDT Jun 20
NEW YORK (AP) - The director of the CIA says he has an “excellent idea” where Osama bin Laden is hiding, but that Washington’s respect for sovereign countries makes it more difficult to capture the al-Qaida chief.

In an interview with Time for the magazine’s June 27 issue, Porter Goss was asked about the progress of the hunt for bin Laden.

“When you go to the question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you’re dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair play,” Goss said. “We have to find a way to work in a conventional world in unconventional ways [that are acceptable to the international community].”

Comment: What???!!! “International obligation”???!!! “Fair play”???!!! What drug is this man on? These are the same people who lied to the world about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, about the links between Saddam and the 9/11 hijackers (Saddam met with Rumsfeld way back in 1983 long before Rumsfeld and his friends started planning 9/11), and who would now have us believe that the Downing Street memo is either a forgery or says something other than what it says.

Asked whether that meant he knew where bin Laden is, Goss responded: “I have an excellent idea where he is. What’s the next question?”

Goss did not say where he thinks bin Laden is, nor did he specify what country or countries he was referring to when he spoke of foreign sanctuaries. But American officials have long said they believed bin Laden was hiding in rugged mountains along the Afghan-Pakistani border.

Comment: The part of the quote in brackets above was taken from Xinhua, the Chinese news service, which had a more complete version of Goss’s words. The next article raises the issue of how it was that a Pakistani TV station was able to find Osama when Pakistani intelligence can’t…