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Success for Task Force 145 -- Now What About Bin Laden?

Unfortunately, I have a feeling that this small victory will not stem the rising tide of increasing violence in Iraq.

Brian Ross writes on ABC News' "The Blotter":

The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the result of more than two years of tracking and surveillance by a U.S. military special forces group known as Task Force 145, the same team assigned the job of finding Osama bin Laden.

Many of the task force’s resources, including unmanned predator aircraft, had been diverted from the bin Laden search in Afghanistan to go after Zarqawi, who came to be seen as a more immediate and deadly threat than bin Laden.

With the hunt for al-Zarqawi over, officials say it is likely the hunt for bin Laden will see a new intensity. Pakistani intelligence officials have told ABC News there are new and significant leads about bin Laden’s general whereabouts.

posted by Fergie @ 6/08/2006 06:40:00 AM