{"id":1630,"date":"2005-05-08T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/gary_schroen_on\/"},"modified":"2005-05-08T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T01:23:02","slug":"gary_schroen_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/gary_schroen_on\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Schroen On Bin Laden&#8217;s Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"May 8 - Meet the Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7761272\/\">This comment<\/a>, from a former senior CIA agent in Afghanistan, is interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MR. RUSSERT:  Before you go, will we ever capture Osama bin Laden?<br \/>\nMR. SCHROEN:  I think with the capture of Al-Libbi recently&#8211;gives some hope that the Pakistanis will cooperate if we put enough pressure on them, and maybe we end up doing it unilaterally but I think we&#8217;re going to get him within the next three to four months.<br \/>\nMR. RUSSERT:  Three to four months.<br \/>\nMR. SCHROEN:  Well, that&#8217;s my hope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a little at odds with what Mr. Schroen said earlier in the interview, when he implied that the Pakistani government really didn&#8217;t want to capture bin Laden, for fear of the domestic turmoil it might spawn.  Perhaps he has wind of something at work behind the scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/gary_schroen_on\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Gary Schroen On Bin Laden&#8217;s Capture\"><p>This comment, from a former senior CIA agent in Afghanistan, is interesting: MR. RUSSERT: Before you go, will we ever capture Osama bin Laden? MR. SCHROEN: I think with the capture of Al-Libbi recently&#8211;gives some hope that the Pakistanis will cooperate if we put enough pressure on them, and maybe we end up doing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}