French Soldiers Had Bin Laden In The Crosshairs
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Courtesy Of: Yahoo News
By Agence France-Presse
Thu Dec 21, 2006
8:06 AM ET

PARIS (AFP) - French soldiers in Afghanistan had Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in their crosshairs -- twice -- but did not receive the order from their US commander to open fire, a French documentary reported.

The filmed report, by journalists Eric de Lavarene and Emmanuel Razavi, asserts that the French troops had bin Laden in their rifle scopes in 2003 and then again six months later in 2004.

Four French soldiers assigned to a 200-strong special forces unit in Afghanistan under US military control all confirmed -- "at different times and in different places" -- that they could have killed bin Laden but that the order to shoot was not forthcoming, the report claims.

The documentary, entitled "Bin Laden: Failings of a Manhunt" and set to be shown on French cable television channel Planete at an unspecified date, relies on the accounts given by the four soldiers.

"We have the original voice recordings of the soldiers," Razavi told AFP. "But their anonymity has to be guaranteed."

However the French defence ministry said the story was "pure fabrication".

"There is absolutely no basis of truth in what is being said," said spokesman Jean-Francois Bureau.

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061221/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanqaedausattacksfrance


Kindly Read The Following Report...


CIA Disbands Bin Laden Unit
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Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Wednesday July 5, 2006
The Guardian

Nearly five years after George Bush vowed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice "dead or alive", it's the end of the line for the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to the hunt for the al-Qaida leader.

The unit, named after the son of a counter-terror official, was disbanded last year, it emerged this week, and its agents reassigned...

...Alec Station was founded in 1996, taking its name from the son of Michael Scheuer, the unit's former director. Its two dozen members worked in rented premises outside the CIA headquarters.

Source:
http://guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,,1812835,00.html


So, why doesn't the government want to capture or kill OBL? What is their real agenda?