Wonder what is up for them to increase security.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/040228/w022830.html Didja see this little tidbit?
Speaking to the AP in Tehran, Hossein identified one of the sources for the bin Laden report as Shamim Shahed, editor of the English-language Pakistani newspaper The Nation in Peshawar. Hossein said Shahed told him Friday night that bin Laden was arrested "a long time ago."
But Shahed, who is The Nation's Peshawar bureau chief and not its editor, denied telling the Iranian radio station that bin Laden had been captured.
"I never said this," Shahed said in a telephone interview with the AP's Islamabad bureau. "But I have for the last year been saying that he is not far away. He is within their (the Americans') reach, and they can declare him arrested any time."
Hossein said he had a second source for his report that bin Laden had been captured, but he declined to identify him except to say he was "a man with close links to intelligence services and Afghan tribal leaders."
Homayoun Jarir, son-in-law of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said he could not confirm the report.
The Iranian news agency IRNA was first to report the capture of Saddam Hussein.
I think Coffer Black had some eye-popping information for the Pakistanis. I think the added security is a direct result of the exchange of information that must have taken place during that visit.
Why their airports? All I can think of right off is that some form of retaliation is what is feared. A far less likely idea is that they expect information and/or key people to be using the airlines to get in and out of Pakistan in a hurry. In other words, couriers or mid-level types scattering. Using the airlines for those purposes seems foolish to me, but maybe they are fools, and desperate fools at that.