Saturday, January 14, 2006

oooops, missed again

As everyone with any knowledge of politics knows Clinton tried twice to kill Osama Bin Laden, the last time he tried with a preditor and hell fire missle, Clinton missed twice.
It is not legal to order the Assination of anyone, even if we were at war. We are not at war, Only Congress can declare war and Congress has not done that.

By Mubashir Zaidi and Zulfiqar Ali, Special to the Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The government demanded an explanation today for a U.S. airstrike on a remote village near the Afghan border that Pakistani officials said missed Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader but killed a number of civilians, including women and children.

Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed called the attack "highly condemnable," and demonstrations erupted in the border region near the scene of the Friday morning attack. A crowd that gathered at a local market shouted "God is Great!" and "Down with America!" Protesters ransacked foreign and govern aid organizations, damaging computers and setting furniture and motorcycles on fire.

U.S. officials in Washington said Friday that Ayman Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who is Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, was the target of the attack. At least 18 people died in mudbrick homes that were destroyed by the blasts.

A U.S. intelligence official said today that it was "too early to tell" whether Zawahiri was killed or injured, or even if he was present at the time of the attack. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of ongoing counter-terrorism operations in South Asia.

But Pakistani officials insisted Zawahiri was not among the dead. The information minister said U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker would be summoned by government officials to explain the attack.

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