General (Eikenberry): Bin Laden only 'one person'

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070213-120159-9247r/

General: Bin Laden only 'one person'

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry told the U.S. House Armed Services Committee that Osama bin Laden is a small part of the problem in Afghanistan.

In response to a question Tuesday from U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., Eikenberry said the capture of the al-Qaida leader would not have an immediate impact on the violence and instability plaguing NATO troops and residents in Afghanistan.

"Bin Laden remains one person, an important person that we need to bring to justice, but he remains one person in a much larger global international terrorist network," Eikenberry said.

He said the insurgency is feeding off the lack of infrastructure as well as government in Afghanistan.

Reconstruction has been a "very difficult process because our baseline that we began with in 2001 is really just ashes, a country decimated by three decades of warfare and through the occupation of international terrorism, so we're trying to build from that."

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. "violence and instability"

Really???

[kskiska]

2. Hitler was only one person

[goforit]

3. LOL!!! OBL is more than one person, OBL is the whole WH branch of Gov't!

[Parche]

6. OSAMA

SHHHHHHH......dont tell that to his boss the CIA!!!!!

[jaksavage]

4. GW and OBL are peers

Both products of extremely influential and rich families, black sheep, religious, leaders. They could have played this game as children, who will rule the world. Couldn't this all be a grand scheme to chase each other around pointlessly. Profiting and promoting their causes and entertaining the audience. They will both go down in history as giants in the family album.

[flobee1]

5. One person

one person brought about the most devistating attack on America that has ever occured

and that one person is being allowed to go free

while this president escalates a war to make more profit for oil companies

it makes me sick