Posted on 10/31/2004 9:59:03 PM PST by CHARLITE
I have had reports Bin Laden made a deal with China and had been hiding in Turkestan with an agreement to wipe out anti-Beijing rebels in exchange for sanctuary. Have also heard US Special Forces and Pakistani special ops soldiers have been waiting at the border just waiting to pounce after diplomacy arranges an okay to strike across the border. The ten-car convoy was spotted by a couple of cruising Indian Air Force jet pilots, who went in for a closer look. Between October 17 and October 19, an Indian air force reconnaissance plane picked him up in the Tibet-Laddakh region close to the North-Eastern corner of Pakistan bordering India and China.
The entire Indian AF went on red alert, and the spotter plane supposedly positively IDed bin Laden, but the US did not get the intel on it until a few days later. The region where the caravan was headed has numerous large cave complexes, and Soviets previously turned some into missile silos.
What many Americans just do not understand is that UBL's cave complexes ARE complex. One of his caves on the Afghan-Pakistan border can sleep over 600 men in it, you can drive trucks in the cave, it has its own water purification plant, air vents, and large stocks of food, medical supplies, weapons, and ammo.
Heard he plans to winter at one or two places, either Hunza province in the Northern Frontier tip of Indian Kashmir; or Little Pamir, where fanatical Tajik tribes are the resident gang-bangers. It is wedged between Tajikistan and China.
Pray for the Prez.
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Quote: "What many Americans just do not understand is that UBL's cave complexes ARE complex. One of his caves on the Afghan-Pakistan border can sleep over 600 men in it, you can drive trucks in the cave,"
Yeah, right. We heard all that in the lead up to the
Afganistan war, and when push came to shove none of these
caves amounted to anything more than a couple hundred cases
of ammo.
The US troops that went into these found them nothing but dirty hell-holes, the biggest could accomodate a truck except that it was 500 feet up a sheer rock wall.
Another urban legand, set far enough away to make it hard
to prove it wrong.
there is big load of BS in this article-the Chinese are getting assistance to fight their Islamics from Pakistan(their oldest & longest lasting ally) & that's one of the reasons why they have had relatively decent success in keeping the Slammics quiet.
If Kerry gets a hold of this info he's going to blame Bush for outsourcing the job to India.
Nice column. Makes Debka look like Victor Davis Hanson.
I heard abou this little Pmir cave before the Afghan War. We hven't checked it out yet?
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