Dalton

This is coolbert:

Here is excerpts from a Time Magazine interview [via telephone] with the man who commanded the U.S. Delta force at Tora Bora. The LAST TIME ANYONE HAS HAD A VERIFIED SIGHTING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN [only, at that, hearing a radio transmission!]!

"What a top terror tracker learned about Osama bin Laden"

Dalton Fury [pseudonym for the U.S. Delta force commander] is a hot button item right now. Has a book on the shelves, doing interviews, was on "60 minutes", etc.! A modern day Tom Horn! Dalton is a man who would have been hunting renegade Apache in the mountains of Mexico over a hundred years ago now.

Some of these comments made by Dalton are in line with my thinking about bin Laden and WHY the man [bin Laden] has not been "run to ground" yet!

Question: The view that exists in the U.S. is that bin Laden is living in a cave somewhere, that he's cut off from the rest of the world.

Answer: "Bin Laden garners a lot of support from people because he has the ability and the willpower to live in austere conditions, to live like the average Afghani or the average Pashtun — without a lot of creature comforts . . . bin Laden is perfectly comfortable with a couple of meals a day of flat bread and some rice . . . It's hard to imagine anybody, any leader in the West, to have the ability to do that, but he's shown that he can certainly do that."

How much is this like Eric Robert Rudolph? A man able to hide in the mountains for years on end, subsisting on the most meagre of diets, and all the while thriving! A man possessing both the physical and mental wherewithal for an extended campaign lasting DECADES!! A fanatic!

And as to the attitude of those persons, Pashtun tribesmen, sheltering the villain, whether it is in the Northwest Territories, Waziristan, Swat Valley, etc.:

"But when you actually get around those people [who shelter the al-Qaeda leaders], you see how honorable they are, how independent they are, how hospitable they are, all according to their religion. It's much different than communism, you know. We never faced that in the Cold War. This truly is a different enemy here."

Bin laden has found sanctuary. Carefully prepared in advance with a lot of attention to inter-marriage between his [bin Laden's] supporters and the local women. Using the time-honored tradition of sanctuary as given by Pashtun to those in their midst.

Just like a man from one hundred years ago. Haji Sahib. Another jihadi on the run. In the same exact area as bin Laden is now. Able to escape and elude the British for twenty years. Dying peacefully in his sleep.

Catching or killing Osama never was going to be easy. Luck is going to have to be on the side of the U.S. if the man is ever going to be caught or killed!!

coolbert.