(Musharraf:) Bin Laden 'alive and in Afghanistan'

sabra

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Thu Sep-28-06 11:12 AM
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(Musharraf:) Bin Laden 'alive and in Afghanistan'

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20495320-2703,00.html

Bin Laden 'alive and in Afghanistan'

PAKISTAN has intelligence suggesting Osama bin Laden is hiding in the eastern Afghanistan province of Kunar, possibly with the help of an Afghan warlord, President Pervez Musharraf said, dismissing a French intelligence report that the al-Qa'ida leader had died of typhoid.

"It's not a hunch," General Musharraf said. "Kunar province borders on Bajaur Agency. We know there are some pockets of al-Qa'ida in Bajaur Agency. We have set a good intelligence organisation. We have moved some army elements. We did strike them twice there. We located and killed a number ofthem."

Interviewed at his hotel in New York, General Musharraf said he believed that bin Laden was in Afghanistan, and suggested a possible link with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Brandishing a UN report highlighted with coloured markers, the President read out its finding that the insurgency in Afghanistan "is being conducted mostly by Afghans operating inside Afghanistan's borders".

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Thu Sep-28-06 11:31 AM
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1. .....in other words don't bomb Pakistan

Hekmatyar and bin Laden fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. In the 1992-96 civil war that followed the Soviet pullout, Hekmatyar, an ethnic Pashtun who was the prime minister, turned his forces against those of president Burhanuddin Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik.

When the Taliban came to power in Kabul, Hekmatyar went into exile in Iran, while bin Laden found safe haven with the hardline Islamic regime. But Hekmatyar returned to Afghanistan when the Taliban were toppled by the American invasion and has since issued statements urging Afghans to support al-Qa'ida and wage jihad against US-led forces.

Perhaps Musharraf and Usama bin Laden

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Sequoia

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Thu Sep-28-06 12:42 PM
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6. Photo Caption: I am you, and you are me, and we are all together.

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0007

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Thu Sep-28-06 10:10 PM
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9. I am with you.....

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spooked

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Fri Sep-29-06 04:52 AM
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11. He's not stupid

lol

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Maeve

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Thu Sep-28-06 11:36 AM
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2. And did the Mayor of Kabul respond with "Is not!"? eom

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Eugene

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Thu Sep-28-06 11:56 AM
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3. Karzai: Bin Laden alive and in Pakistan

and so is Mullah Omar.

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arewenotdemo

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Thu Sep-28-06 12:23 PM
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5. I believe Osama is in Pakistan

I don't believe Musharraf has any intention of apprehending Bin Laden there.

Of course, neither does the Cheerleader.

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lumberjack_jeff

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Thu Sep-28-06 12:22 PM
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4. The Asia times reported this three weeks ago

Edited on Thu Sep-28-06 12:22 PM by lumberjack_jeff

Nothing in the US press yet. Why? Because it kinda undermines the official story that we control Afghanistan.

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oblivious

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Thu Sep-28-06 12:49 PM
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7. Musharraf, July 2002: "Osama bin Laden is dead"

The Death of bin Ladenism
By AMIR TAHERI

PARIS � Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/opinion/11TAHE.html?ex=1159588800&en=972dcebff0b1849a&ei=5070

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mtnester

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Thu Sep-28-06 12:54 PM
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8. I personally believe that Musharraf knopws EXACTLY where Bin Laden is

at any given hour of the day.

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arewenotdemo

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Fri Sep-29-06 12:44 AM
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10. I agree

Edited on Fri Sep-29-06 12:46 AM by arewenotdemo

Musharraf stated that he "war-gamed" the United States after 9/11. Oddly enough, neither the American press nor public has criticized him for that. If the ISI director General Mahmoud Ahmad directed Saeed Sheikh to send Atta $100,000, as has been charged, there is a decent chance that Musharraf knew about it, IMO.

I know people here will disagree, but IMO anyone ignorant AND arrogant enough to "war-game" the U.S., and then publicize it while touring the States, should not be underestimated.

Fucker's got Osama-size balls. Coincidence?

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