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If Ijaz has better intelligence sources than the government has, then I would expect that he'd be telling the government first before revealing it on national television.

If not, it might mean that he is more interested in publicity than in helping in the war on terror.

Worse, it could mean that he's interested more in tipping off the hunted so that they could change tactics.

At the very least, the government should be eavesdropping on every communication he makes or receives, and probably are.

Everything about this report makes me suspicious.

Understand something, the Iranians have much more at stake in a deal with us than they can get from helping Binnie fulfill his addled fantasy life.

Bin Laden ONLY hangs out in the lawless undying lands. Afghanistan, the Northwestern Frontier states, and the wastes of Sudan are attractive to him: each one of had or have weak or distracted governments.

Iran has a strong central authority. If Binnie went in there, the Iranians could let him hang around for a while, set up shop, then send in the Pasdaran to round up the whole gang. Then Khameinei would place a call to GW and start the process of merchant bargaining.

The Iranians could name their price, and would find a way to leak the information in order to put pressure on Bush to deal.

Bin Laden would never place himself at the mercy of the Shi'a mullahs. To do so would be madness on his part. Binnie is in the Northwestern Frontier states, where there is no law and where his money can go a long way.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

Again, the author of "Losing Bin Laden" places great credibility in Ijaz, and basically said that OBL doesn't CARE that people know where he is, because often (not always) he think's he's invulnerable. He swings between paranoid evasions (like nearly crashing his private jet on takeoff then leaping into another one that taxied up next to him, convinced the first was bugged) to havind a house in Somalia that he lived at regularly for years.