Osama Bin Laden In Pakistan: Wore Cowboy Hats, Ate Chocolate And Was Even Stopped For Speeding
Source: International Business Times
The assassination of former Al-Qaeda chieftain Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces in May 2011 might have been unnecessary if a Pakistani police officer had done his job properly years before that episode. According to a report in Britains Daily Telegraph, an automobile carrying the man who was responsible the 9-11 attacks and many other terror acts, was pulled over for speeding by Pakistani police in the Swat Valley in 2002 or 2003. It is unclear why the driver and occupants were let go either the policeman was bribed or he simply did not recognize that the worlds most wanted man was a passenger in the car.
According to an official investigation by the Abbottabad Commission of the Pakistani government that was obtained by Al Jazeera, Osama, his family and two couriers along with their families would periodically drive to the bazaar and marketplace when they lived in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan. The information came from a woman named Maryam, the wife of one of Osamas bodyguards. Ibrahim al-Kuwaiti, during her testimony to Pakistani investigators. She said her husband quickly settled the matter with the police. Maryam also told probers that she did not even recognize Osama, who at the time was clean-shaven.
The document from the Islamabad government unearthed other strange and fascinating details of Osamas secret life in Pakistan. Among other things, Osamas walled in compound in Abbottabad (where he ultimately was killed) was fitted with four separate meters for electricity and natural gas respectively, in an apparent attempt to ensure that none of the meters showed an excessive amount of activity, betraying the true number of residents.
Bizarrely, Osama was even fond of wearing that most American of fashion apparel a cowboy hat. The report also discussed his eating habits. Bin Laden, who reportedly suffered from various ailments, particularly in his kidneys and possibly his heart, would sometimes complain of sluggishness, and, on those occasions, he would eat some chocolate and/or an apple, according to the commissions findings, the document said.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/osama-bin-laden-pakistan-wore-cowboy-hats-ate-chocolate-was-even-stopped-speeding-1336859
Osama Bin Laden was stopped by the police for speeding just a year after 9/11, and was let go.
BlueEye
(449 posts)That money would go a long way if we'd invest it here at home.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Who do you think he thought he was, John Wayne??
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Response to Major Hogwash (Reply #2)
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Javaman
(62,532 posts)chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)If a policeman had done his job? Who is the International Business Times crapping? It irks the hell out of men that Pakistan readily accepted billions in American aid money while ignoring bin Laden's whereabouts for 10 years and still looks the other way at current Al Quaeda activities. Drones are not the answer, but this government plays the US as fools everyday.
ForeignandDomestic
(190 posts)Osama and his family always had strong ties and business interest in the west.
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/business/bin-laden-family-liquidates-holdings-with-carlyle-group.html?smid=pl-share|
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)Color me un-surprised.
rug
(82,333 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)The FBI wasn't looking for Osama for 9/11. I wonder why that is.