Peter Kemp peter_n_kempathotmaildotcom@ wrote in message . ..
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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Peter Kemp

Life is short - Drink Faster

Close to 200 German KSK were operating with US Special Forces in
covert cross border raids into Pakistan, hunting the Taliban. This is
one of the things Schroeder was opposed to. Since the KSK were under
US command, neither Schroeder nor his defense minister were kept
up-to-date with where the KSK was operating or what they were doing.
This had to influence Schroeder's decision not to send German troops
to Iraq and break his vow of support to President Bush.

Rob