[Dog]

According the Black ...Bin Laden is still trying to communicate to other AQ leaders.....that is very interesting....have we picked up a SAT-Phone conversation......or is he talking thru email?

[Cap Huff]

I saw this earlier today:

"Hayat said Karachi had "penetrated the communication network" of Al-Qaeda and understood the structure, projects and financing of the organization."

http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/Feb-2004/28/main/live1.asp

Right now about the third story down.

[monocle]

We all become conditioned to expect electronic intercepts, but it is possible that one or more couriers have been apprehended. If a courier or two has been intercepted, that could provide even more valuable information and lend greater confidence in bin Laden's capture as has been seen in the last week or two by US officials.

[Aggie Mama]

Dog, I don't think that we are going to catch him alive. He will kill himself and the others around him first. He doesn't want to end up like Hussein.

[okie01]

"According the Black ...Bin Laden is still trying to communicate to other AQ leaders.....that is very interesting....have we picked up a SAT-Phone conversation......or is he talking thru email?"

Recall the al-Qaeda courier captured with a CD-ROM in Iraq? The one that contained the letter from Zarqawi, complaining about how the Americans weren't going away and that he was having difficulty recruiting?

While it didn't begin with "Dear Osama", the "you" that the letter was addressed to was obviously well above Zarqawi's pay grade. From context, it seemed evident that the "you" was more likely Osama than Zawahiri.

Accordingly, we can conclude that he remains in contact via courier. Doubtless, one known courier has been allowed safe passage and led our forces to Osama's lair.