Bin Laden is isolated, focused on his own security: CIA


	Bin Laden is isolated, focused on his own security: CIA

jatfla

11-13-2008 6:44 PM

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jatfla says:

This is contrary to a clip this week.

Hayden is saying nothing really new. For years it's been thought that Bin Laden is hunkered down along that border....thus the drone activity that Pakistan (outwardly) opposes.

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