[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Long time lag According to this:

How Does al Qaeda Send Terror Tapes Without Getting Caught?

According to al Libbi, it takes six to 12 weeks of travel in the remote and inhospitable areas along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri are still hiding.

[Dog Gone]

Fascinating article. Thanks for linking it.

[Dog]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C01%5C21%5Cstory_21-1-2006_pg7_39

US agents based in Afghanistan had also made reconnaissance raids into South and North Waziristan, and all the way up to Bajur and the northern areas, the official said.

Four months later the US made its most spectacular cross-border incursion yet with its air strike on Damadola village. “If they are present in this area of the air strike they would be nervous,” Yousfzai said. “They would be concerned that action had started in Bajaur after South and North Waziristan. They must have moved to some other area.” Pakistan lodged a formal protest after 18 civilians were reportedly killed in the air strike, highlighting the continual danger that Washington’s war on terror might alienate its closest allies even as bin Laden remains on the run. afp

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

According to al Libbi, it takes six to 12 weeks of travel in the remote and inhospitable areas along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri are still hiding.

Must take longer to get messages out of HELL, I would think.