Word: bins
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...folly to predict. Events are moving too quickly. When Obama launched his campaign last year, the biggest issue in the world was Iraq. Now the public's interest - and U.S. involvement there - is dwindling almost by the day. Obama's bumper-sticker plan for Afghanistan - more troops to catch bin Laden - is being swallowed up in a befuddling tangle of intractable issues, ranging from the Afghan heroin trade to the instability of Kashmir. Foreign policy breeds surprises in American Presidents: Nixon went to China; Reagan proposed nuclear disarmament; Bush changed from "humble" to imperial in a single morning. Compounding...
...When the raid was all over, I could not help but think that here we were in Tora Bora a year after our first violent attacks in these mountains, but instead of having bin Laden within reach, as we did back then, we were now grabbing any little person who might have spoken to him at some time. ...The intel on Osama bin Laden remained...
...Lowdown: Although the author chastises American media for printing lies in order to satisfy the public need for a story, he acknowledges that the "world is interested" in learning of the events of bin Laden's non-capture - an about-face seeming to serve mostly Fury's need to pat himself and the other Delta fighters on the back for more than 300 pages. His detailed account borders on idolatry not only for himself, but also for his fellow comrades - "the boys" as he repeatedly refers to them...
...penultimate chapter, admitting that "we were naïve back in December 2001 to think that Westerners could invade a Muslim country and rely on indigenous fighters to kill their Islamic brothers with tenacity and impunity." What readers are ultimately left with, though, is the barest outline of bin Laden, the man who has become an international punchline while making a joke out of the governments that have pursued him for so long - however interesting it might be to find out how he got away...
...Gilad Shalit, that they will all be killed and all slaughtered because this is what they deserve," it read. Settler wrath was also aimed at Washington. Commenting on the arrival of the U.S.-sponsored Palestinian security forces in Hebron, settler leader Baruch Marzel told TIME: "It's like asking Bin Laden's men to come protect Manhattan." He added: "They're terrorists. We'll shoot them if they come near our houses...