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Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Alec Station, RIP, 1996-2005.
Dismantling the group designated to hunt for bin Laden is bad politics. Does that make it good policy? Maybe so. Protecting the nation against terror attacks is a lot bigger than one man -- but this particular one man should be captured, tried, and sent to prison for the remainder of his days. (Don't give him the glory of martyrdom. Make him a Brando -- a quasi-comic shell of his once-imposing self.)
Here's the Guardian report:
Nearly five years after George Bush vowed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice "dead or alive", it's the end of the line for the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to the hunt for the al-Qaida leader.
The unit, named after the son of a counter-terror official, was disbanded last year, it emerged this week, and its agents reassigned in what intelligence officials described as a recognition of the changing nature of al-Qaida.
...Alec Station was founded in 1996...Its two dozen members worked in rented premises outside the CIA headquarters.
...Terrorism experts believe that Bin Laden and his Egyptian lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, no longer exercise centralised control over international jihad, although they continue to offer inspiration with audio tape messages and other more secret communications.
Is it worth noting that under Clinton's watch, the CIA began a hunting for bin Laden 5 years before 9/11? And that under Bush's watch, the CIA gave up hunting for bin Laden 5 years after 9/11. (Or, according to some persuasive accounts in November, 2001.
