Telling the world that bin Laden had been killed hours before gave every al Qaeda operative time to scurry back into the shadows, the chance to live and fight another day.
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The Tea Party drove one long-time Republican operative to quit after 30 years as a Capitol Hill staffer.
High Season For Washington Political Theater: House and Senate Republicans promptly scheduled hearings on Capitol Hill, with suspicions fueled by revelations that security office head Craig Livingstone was not a security professional, but a political operative, a one-time advance guy, a former bouncer who had spent a large part of his 37 years working on political campaigns.
The strategy that the US has adopted in Iraq, which has met with such success in the brief time it has been operative, is a long-term strategy.
Quite often, in the rush to prevent an attack, authorities will move in and seize a suspected operative and hold him without trial for an indefinite period of time.
The former CIA operative, now 78, came to the US after serving time in Panama for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro at a regional summit there in 2002.
Even so, this time around Muslim leaders are being less co-operative with America than they were during the 1991 Gulf war, when all Arab states lined up behind the forces that drove Iraq out of Kuwait.
Strachan, winning the Manager of the Year award for the second time, has led Celtic to the Co-operative Insurance Cup this season and his team are a point ahead of rivals Rangers at the top of the Premier League.
United were taken to extra-time by Ross County in Dingwall in the Co-operative Insurance Cup in midweek and did not return to Dundee, albeit victorious, until the early hours of the following morning.
According to a spokesman, the co-operative will run five ferries on the city's Harbourside on regular time-tabled services, 364 days a year.
The Co-operative Insurance company apply their name to the League Cup for the last time this Sabbath, and in the wake of the Old Firm final, Scottish football will have two of its three major competitions without financial backers.
"He has been trained to fly in the front seat as the mission commander, a role that equips the operative to fly the aircraft from the back seat but the majority of the time involves operating the Apache's sights, sensors and weapons systems, " it said.
The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative scandal exposed his doping and subsequently led to his 9.78 seconds record time being dropped from the books.
President Bush and what is left of the GOP on Capitol Hill and around the country would do well to heed this skilled operative's critique - and the insights it provides for the way ahead in such a dangerous time of war.
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