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Old October 21st 03, 12:12 AM
Peter Kemp
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On or about 20 Oct 2003 12:45:01 -0700,
(Evan Brennan) allegedly uttered:

(Kenneth Williams) wrote in message om...

IMO the Germans didn't do any worse than the current
US Special Forces that were searching for Osama Bin Laden or Saddam
Hussein. Same situtation in both Afghanistan and Iraq with resistance.



The current British , Australian and German special forces didn't have any
luck finding Bin Laden either.


Probably because they were not tasked with it. IIRC they were deployed
on counter-Taliban tasking in Afghanistan, and the tales from Iraq
have not yet emerged excepting the role the Aussies played in securing
some stuff out West, not the kind of high value target search you're
talking about.


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