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Reed: Get Osama if we have a good shot

 

As part of a forthcoming story on US Senator Jack Reed, N4N was in the house at Local 121 this week when Matt and Kim videotaped an interview with Rhode Island's senior senator. Particularly interesting is the Democrat's response to a question about his favorite blogs (in answering, he notes that he reads the ProJo and the Phoenix online).

On a related note, the NYT reported this week on the 500th US combat death in Afghanistan. Reed is among the Democrats who've critcized the White House for not putting sufficient military resources in that country. It should be a greater focus, they say, since it and the tribal areas of Pakistan represent the current base of Al Qaeda.

Press accounts have indicated a reluctance on the part of the Bush administration to strike against Al Qaeda's leadership in that part of the world, because of the political sensitivities of doing so. Reed called it "a hard choice," given the possibility of collateral damage and other consequences. Yet if the US has good intell that could lead to the capture or death of Osama bin Laden and other key Al Qaeda leaders, he says, "we have to take that risk."

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