Time:"Hot on Osamas Trail"

irishFS1921 · Mar 5, 2003

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,429036,00.html

U.S. and Pakistani intelligence services are reasonably hopeful that the arrest last Saturday of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda's military planner, may flush terrorist chief Osama bin Laden out of hiding. For the first time since bin Laden eluded a U.S.-backed siege of his Afghan mountain stronghold of Tora Bora in December 2001, his hunters have been able to establish that he is still alive and probably hiding "somewhere in northern Pakistan"— a notion Islamabad has long been reluctant to admit. As one Pakistani intelligence official in Peshawar said, "We think that bin Laden will break cover after Mohammed's capture, and when he does, we stand a good chance of catching him."
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Ian McCracken · Mar 5, 2003

Geez, how is all this possible while we have 300,000 troops poised to enter Iraq? I guess we can chew gum and walk at the same time.

Word in the intelligence community is that capture of Bin Laden is only days away...if not HOURS.

csc7 · Mar 5, 2003

Originally posted by Ian McCracken
Geez, how is all this possible while we have 300,000 troops poised to enter Iraq? I guess we can chew gum and walk at the same time.

Word in the intelligence community is that capture of Bin Laden is only days away...if not HOURS.
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yes, with your direct link to the intelligence community

Ian McCracken · Mar 5, 2003

Originally posted by csc7
yes, with your direct link to the intelligence community
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You got that right.

irishFS1921 · Mar 5, 2003

Ian IS the intel community

you shouldn't mess with him.

Dan Loney · Mar 5, 2003

Originally posted by Ian McCracken
Bin Laden is dead in the rubble of Tora Bora.
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You were saying?

Scotty · Mar 5, 2003

Originally posted by Dan Loney
You were saying?
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Ah yes. That old chestnut.