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New clue to Bin Laden hideout
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| 03/07/03
| From correspondents in Islamabad
Posted on 03/06/2003 1:16:24 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
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I'm not sure how much in this is new to Freepers.
To: Straight Vermonter
He'll make a break for Iran
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:19:45 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
To: Straight Vermonter
Nice map!
Let me see. We already have troops in Afghanistan. And some in Pakistan, helping hunt for OBL. And in about a week we'll have a significant presence throughout Iraq. Which means we'll pretty much have Iran surrounded.
If OBL and his band of merry men were to flee Pakistan into Iran, the U.S. might not have any choice but to send the troops in after him (in force, from all sides). If "regime change" were to occur in Iran while we were in the neighborhood, I guess we wouldn't object.
Hmmm.
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:22:45 PM PST
by
Earl B.
To: AppyPappy
Remember the ships mosying around in the Indian Ocean?... Binny wants to get to one of those, asap.
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:23:24 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: MHGinTN
Remember the ships mosying around in the Indian Ocean?... So that's where the French Carrier DeGaulle is going.
To: Semper Paratus
Isn't the DeGaulle that $hitty carrier they built for $2 billion that ended up having a landing deck that was too short for their jets???
To: Straight Vermonter
New clue to Bin Laden hideout Even if they catch or kill him, there is still much work to be done in the war on terrorism. I would prefer they kill him. The alternative, is a cot and 3 hots a day, cable TV, telephone, law library, with the best medical treatment he can get, including needed organ transplants, plus he will get a cult following, and all the kooks will send him money and
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:33:20 PM PST
by
Mark17
To: Mark17
and whatever else he needs.
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:34:05 PM PST
by
Mark17
To: Straight Vermonter
I think Laurie Mylroie theorized that Ramzi Yousef was from Baluchistan.
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:41:41 PM PST
by
Ben Hecks
To: Mark17
I don't particularly care if Bin Laden's alive or not. I just want his head separated from his torso and firmly planted on one of the White House fence stakes.
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:41:51 PM PST
by
Coop
To: Semper Paratus
The french carrier is moving to block our troop and ships from passing through the suez from turkey to kuwait...
They might go so far as to scuttle her in the eggress to the canal... IF we don't stand them down in the mean time.
To: AppyPappy
I suspect that Iran has been given an ultimatum by the US NOT to take this scum into its borders. They really gain nothing by harboring him; he's a Sunni and they're mostly Shia in any event.
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:43:40 PM PST
by
laconic
To: irish guard
"Isn't the DeGaulle that $hitty carrier they built for $2 billion that ended up having a landing deck that was too short for their jets???"
Yes, but that wasn't much of a problem, seeing as how the propellor fell off.
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posted on
03/06/2003 1:44:22 PM PST
by
APBaer
To: Straight Vermonter
He's fled to Wah, and in Wah he'll be found crying wahhhhhh.
To: Mark17
I have too many ideas for him. I want him alive. But if you want, I know where you can get one of these:
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:04:49 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: AppyPappy
Top CIA officials arrived in Pakistan early on Thursday morning as evidence mounted that the area in which the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is being hunted has been narrowed down to a coastal strip close to the Iranian border.
Intelligence officials said that the hunt for Mr bin Laden is now "white hot", and is concentrated around the southern Pakistani port of Gawadar.
European intelligence sources said on Thursday that the news of the arrest last week of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda operations chief, is thought to have led to Mr bin Laden leaving his previous hideout among the barren mountains along the Pakistan-Afghan border. This has now led investigators to scour the coastline around Gawadar, as expectations have risen that the al-Qaeda leader may be planning to escape by boat.
An intelligence source said on Thursday that the hunt for signs of Mr bin Laden's escape plans are also continuing in Rawalpindi, where Mr Mohammed was captured. Investigators have now examined letters and a video sent recently by Mr bin Laden to Mr Mohammed in which he gave instructions for the terror campaign to continue. The suggestion is that Mr bin Laden had not expected Mr Mohammed to be captured, and had given him responsibility for continuing the terror campaign.
"What is clear is that the likelihood of picking up bin Laden this week as opposed to last week, has soared. Following the arrest of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, bin Laden must now be concerned that Mohammed might decide to talk and possibly hint as to his location," a senior western intelligence source said yesterday.
Financial Times
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:10:38 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Straight Vermonter
What time is the Bush Speech tonight???
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:11:16 PM PST
by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: Robert_Paulson2
They want an act of war, then they may just get an act of war. If you catch my drift...........
To: Porterville
8 eastern, I believe.
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posted on
03/06/2003 2:14:28 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Straight Vermonter
New clue to Bin Laden hideout
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