Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[tlc]

empty..??

our best intel said
it was not empty..



About 75 cruise missiles landed in Afghanistan at four insurgent training camps around Khost and Jalalabad: three camps in the Jarawah area near Khost, one of which, El Farouq, trained primarily Arab Afghans, and Al Badr camp 10 miles to the west which also trained Arab Afghans and was run by bin Laden.[7] The Khost camp, Zawhar Kili, was reportedly the scene of a meeting of "senior leaders of Islamic militant and terrorist groups linked to bin Laden," and was regarded by Pakistani intelligence as a "summit" convened by bin Laden. [8] Whether bin Laden would definitely attend was uncertain to the Americans, but the attack was made partly in hopes that bin Laden would attend and be killed. [9] After the attack, the CIA heard that bin Laden had been at Zawhar Kili but had left some hours before the missiles hit.[10]

According to Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, the Al Badr camp controlled by Bin Laden and the Khalid bin Walid and Muawai camps run by the Pakistani Harakat ul Ansar[11] were the main targets. However Harakat ul-Ansar was training to fight Indian troops in Kashmir, not Americans. [12] About 20 people died in the Afghan strikes. According to Rashid, 20 Afghans, seven Pakistanis, three Yemenis, two Egyptians, one Saudi and one Turk were killed.

If bin laden got away..
maybe it was Paki intel
who helped him..do so..
yet again

your facts..
are not accurate

explain the PDB 06-08-2001..
in light of the missile defense
at the Genoa G8 meeting
6 weeks before 911

"Missiles to protect summit leaders"
July 11, 2001

Italy has installed a missile defence system at Genoa's airport to deter airborne attacks during next week's G8 summit,...A land-based battery of rockets with a range of nine miles and an altitude of 5,000 feet has been positioned in the latest security measure against perceived threats from terrorists and protesters. ... Unidentified planes, helicopters and balloons risk being shot down should they drift too close to the heads of state ...Colonel Alberto Battaglini, of the ministry of defence, said the precaution was not excessive. "The measure, which was planned by the previous government, may seem open to criticism, but in reality it is merely to act as a deterrent against any aerial incursion during the summit. "They are little missiles ... which only have a deterrent function to discourage any aerial-led attack and they do not present any danger to the residents of the city," he said....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,519925,00.htm