Bin Laden 'surrounded'

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | February 22, 2004

[Patriot1998]

A BRITISH Sunday newspaper is claiming Osama bin Laden has been found and is surrounded by US special forces in an area of land bordering north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Sunday Express, known for its sometimes colourful scoops, claims the al-Qaeda leader has been "sighted" for the first time since 2001 and is being monitored by satellite.

The paper claims he is in a mountainous area to the north of the Pakistani city of Quetta. The region is said to be peopled with bin Laden supporters and the terrorist leader is estimated to also have 50 of his fanatical bodyguards with him.

The claim is attributed to "a well-placed intelligence source" in Washington, who is quoted as saying: "He (bin Laden) is boxed in."

The paper says the hostile terrain makes an all-out conventional military assault impossible. The plan to capture him would depend on a "grab-him-and-go" style operation.

"US helicopters already sited on the Afghanistan border will swoop in to extricate him," the newspaper says. It claims bin Laden and his men "sleep in caves or out in the open. The area is swept by fierce snow storms howling down from the 10,000ft-high mountain peaks. Donkeys are the only transport."

The special forces are "absolutely confident" there is no escape for bin Laden, and are awaiting the order to go in and get him.

"The timing of that order will ultimately depend on President Bush," the paper says. "Capturing bin Laden will certainly be a huge help for him as he gets ready for the election."

The article says bin Laden's movements are monitored by a National Security Agency satellite.

On Thursday last week, General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said America had been engaged in "intense" efforts to capture bin Laden, who was believed to be hiding in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[Quix]

mUCH AGREE.

[Eastbound]

"I know it's gonna happen and I will have to go outside and indulge myself with a Dean-like primal scream...LOL "

'I'll scream, you'll scream, we'll all scream like Dean screams.'

[Quix]

oR PERHAPS

little piglets crawling all over his naked body eating the lice off?

[null and void]

John Kerry and Hillary Clinton on suicide watch.

Oooooo! Can I watch?

[ohioWfan]

Is that your mother, Kantian??

From the looks of your pictures on your homepage, there just may be a family resemblance..........hehe

(Just kidding, as you well know........)

[Mo1]

You all are going to think I'm crazy and sound like Maddie Albright here. I could see us doing a snatch and grab on Bin Laden.......and pumping for info for a few days .......then ......and only break the news only after we got all the info we could from him

It's not like Maddie's thinking ... she thinks we'll hold him just for election reasons

Your thinking of holding him is for protecting this and others countries from terrorists acts

[NYTexan]

The area is swept by fierce snow storms howling down from the 10,000ft-high mountain peaks.
See: http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=OPQT and http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/41661.html

Donkeys are the only transport.
See: http://www.paknet.com.pk/users/anjum/train.html

Other interesting links:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6182/

[FreedomCalls]

If Bin Laden is alive and well and living in Pakistan, the Hitler is alive and well and living in Argentina. Remember that phrase from the 1960s? It was just as true now as it was then. Hitler was killed in 1945 despite all the rumors about his escaping Germany to Argentina. Bin Laden was killed in Tora Bora in 2002 despite all the rumors of his escaping Afghanistan to Pakistan.

Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it.

[Dog]

If he is taken alive......in my eyes he has no rights.......hook him to the nearest Die Hard battery and get every piece of info out of him.

Then kill him on the spot.

[Mo1]

I have no problem with that

[ohioWfan]

And don't forget that at this point in time in 1984, Gary HART was ahead of Ronald Reagan....

Polls this early mean NOTHING.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that Bush WILL lose.
I'm just saying he COULD lose.
If People trusted their President as implictly as you think, then why would his poll numbers EVER go down?

[spokeshave]

"Besides, slap a high tech brain wave cap on him--show him images, ask him questions, get the readings--go after his troops and the nukes accordingly."

The way its done is to use some total relaxing drug, and hook him up to a breathing machine...stick his head in a positron brain scanner and ask questions..yes/no /true/false is immediately indicated on the scan. If a lie is detected then switch off the breathing machine for a few minutes..Osama will soon get the swing of things and sing like a canary.

[freebacon]

"Hard to escape from a daisy cutter or tactical nuclear weapon."

If we obliterate him completely we can't prove we ever got him.

[Pontiac]

The paper claims he is in a mountainous area to the north of the Pakistani city of Quetta. The region is said to be peopled with bin Laden supporters and the terrorist leader is estimated to also have 50 of his fanatical bodyguards with him.

Great, tell Allah to prepare a place for 50 new martyrs.

[Zebra]

I agree. As I have posted numerous times, a guy who had an obsession for circulating videos prior to Tora Bora suddenly starts settling for audiotapes (very compelling) and pre-2002 videos.

The best way to rally the faithful (psychotics) is to show yourself still standing and in one piece despite the might of America being brought to bear.

He was killed (or worse) at Tora Bora.

[Quix]

Sounds like a good system . . . in the uhhhhh right hands.

[Quix]

Would he have enough demonic ferver to choose to suffocate instead?

[null and void]

One can hope.

[frithguild]

Bush is waiting for better weather ... then Halliburton will go in and capture him!