Why Usama bin Ladin has little to fear from American intelligence

September 14, 2001 12:04 PM

Why Usama bin Ladin has little to fear from American intelligence Is this an example of an "intelligence leak?" (From Jul/Aug, '01 Atlantic)
posted by prozaction (6 comments total)

There seem to have been an awful lot of "intelligence leaks" over the past few days. Most notably the constant updating of our progress or lack thereof in the investigations. Now, we keep hearing stories about people breaching airport security, which would only encourage terrorists, I think.

But, also, considering that bin Laden is "the most wired terrorist" around, would articles such as these be part of the counterterrorist effort?
posted by prozaction at 12:10 PM on September 14, 2001

So it is bad behavior to point out a double post nowadays?
posted by gluechunk at 12:25 PM on September 14, 2001

Thanks for the post, prozaction. Now I'm going to go build my bunker.
posted by argybarg at 12:26 PM on September 14, 2001

This earlier post has a very interesting article with a slightly different take on the issues at hand.

I don't think these articles are intelligence leaks per se. But I do think bin Laden is probably reading them, or some of his folks are. If it makes him feel safter, well, Ok. If it makes us work harder, that's cool too.
posted by daver at 12:34 PM on September 14, 2001

Thanks for the post, prozaction. Interesting indeed. And disturbing.
posted by dagny at 12:53 PM on September 14, 2001

sorry about the redundant post. these things happen, i guess...
posted by prozaction at 1:10 PM on September 14, 2001