Security Entourage Holds Clues In Hunt for Bin Laden

My Comment: According to report "They go in caravans and dress in women's clothing to avoid detection by satellite". Begs the question "Are only men detectable by satellite?" This is too Pythonesque.


From the March 25, 2005 edition

By Owais Tohid | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN – After three years of poking around caves, raiding compounds, and getting the slip from motorbike mullahs, the intelligence communities chasing Osama bin Laden finally seem to know what they're on the lookout for.

To find the world's most wanted man, Pakistani forces are trying to spot signs of his elaborate security entourage. Lt. Gen. Safdar Hussain, Pakistan's top commander in the tribal region near the Afghan border, says Mr. bin Laden is guarded by some 50 men, divided into concentric circles of security.

Despite President Pervez Musharraf's recent statement that bin Laden's trail had gone cold, the hunt goes on."I am desperately looking for the signature of his security; because it is then I can declare victory.... Finding the signature means either I will get hold of him or I will kill him," General Hussain told the Monitor in an interview at his headquarters in Peshawar.

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When bin Laden's group moves, says Hussain, they go in caravans and dress in women's clothing to avoid detection by satellite."Now I have also given orders that when every vehicle is checked, the women are asked to say something so that you can make out whether it is a male voice or a female voice," he says.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0325/p07s01-wosc.html

Heck, I need to apply for a job with Pakistani Intelligence.

They're not even looking for him. GW is just letting him go.

they've been wrong countless times in the past few years, and his own intelligence outfit had plenty of business dealings with our supposed enemies anyway.

remember when they cornered Zawahiri some months back? Nice work, guys.

One day Bush's War On Terror will be made into a really funny musical comedy.

Springtime for Dubya

That's if we all live long enough to laugh about this.

this bit was Terry Jones&The Python Players doing a drag skit. How hilarious and desperate is this propaganda. Osama bin Lady drag queen.

Or, maybe the top-ranking Pakistani General thinks he's a clever boy?

Rocky Horror Picture Show in mufti and caftans.

passing as a woman would be bit difficult.

Wanted 6 foot 4 inch tall woman with a beard mideastern may be traveling with large group of really ugly women.Send to dept of homeland security.