[woofie]

Sounds promising

[Just mythoughts]

What no rumors?

[Coop]

Information gleaned from him by interrogators has helped direct Pakistani and American forces in their drive to capture bin Laden and other senior al-Qa'eda figures, being conducted in the mountainous areas on both sides of the border. The authorities in Islamabad are unwilling formally to announce the capture of the younger al-Zawahiri, but officials have privately confirmed that he is being questioned by a joint team of intelligence officers - from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency and the CIA - at a secret location in Pakistan.

Fingers crossed, and prayers going out for a quick and safe eradication of this evil beast and all with him.

[11th_VA]

Sounds like we're getting close !!!

[Levy78]

His days are dwindling...

[fuzzthatwuz]

"part of an unofficial deal, in return for Washington supporting President Pervez Musharraf's controversial decision to pardon Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man behind Pakistan's nuclear bomb, for selling nuclear weapons materials on the international black market."

Herein lies a Kerry media blitz! "OK Bush you might have captured Ben Laden, but at what cost? The release of a Pakastani nuclear expert"?

[ApplegateRanch]

He warned: "You know that almost every tribesman is loaded with weapons in the tribal region and if they are pushed to the wall they would never hesitate to take the law into their own hands."

WHAT law?

Isn't that most of the problem in the "tribal areas"?

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Fascinating:

"It's a quid pro quo: we're going to get our troops inside Pakistan in return for not forcing Musharraf to deal with Khan."

The Khan nuke-proliferation revelations are being artfully leveraged for scrotal torque on the Paks, gaining us the long-coveted boots-on-the-ground in the border territories. Impressive! That, ladies and gentleman, is how to play the game.

[EGPWS]

Information gleaned from him by interrogators has helped direct Pakistani and American forces in their drive to capture bin Laden and other senior al-Qa'eda figures, being conducted in the mountainous areas on both sides of the border.

And where is the American press? Are they too busy with J "effin'" K's election promises to latch on to such news or is this story bogus?

I like the accuracy and knowledge that Massoud Ansari has shown in the past however.

[Zeroisanumber]

Excellent.

[cdrw]

All the progress is great news and I hope we nail his hide soon. What worries me about all this is the potential that he slips into Iran and then onto somewhere else, we lose him again, and the whole thing turns into an election year debacle. Somebody is using the press to set expectations fairly high on this springtime offensive. I hope it's Dubya and that he knows he's really got the scum cornered.

[Capt. Tom]

Remember when Osama was killed or forced out of the Tora Bora area and the survivors went across the Afghan border in the vicinty of the Khyber pass to get away from our bombing.

It looks as though they went south into the tribal areas of Waziristan for refuge.

Here is the area in green where this is playing out. Looks lke we are concentrating our efforts between Wana and Miran Shan

[tubavil]

Hey, don't laugh. Ever been to Detroit?

[cookcounty]

I still believe Osama's been dead for 2 years. Ayman Al-Zawahiri would be a wonderful and worthwhile catch, though.

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . where inhabitants remain sympathetic to the Taliban movement as well as the Arab fighters who came to support it.

Time to send Nina Totenberg over there for a juicy interview and a photo-op or two.