Israel tried to kill bin Laden in 1996: paper

Reuters ^

[Sub-Driver]

Israel tried to kill bin Laden in 1996: paper Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:57 AM ET

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Mossad spy service and a foreign counterpart enlisted a confidante of Osama bin Laden to kill the al Qaeda leader in 1996 but the plan fell apart over a political dispute, a newspaper said on Thursday.

Mossad picked up bin Laden's trail while helping U.S. and Egyptian agents probe an attempt by Islamist militants on the life of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak as he visited Ethiopia, Israeli daily Yedioth Aharonoth said citing security sources.

According to the report, Mossad recruited a woman close to bin Laden with the help of the intelligence service in her country. Neither the woman's name nor nationality were given.

Yedioth said the woman was meant to kill bin Laden, but the mission was aborted as a result of a breakdown of ties between Israel

[Sub-Driver]

Al Reuters....

[lesser_satan]

Interesting. Thanks.

[Moosilauke]

Have the movie rights been sold yet?

[NCSteve]

Woulda shoulda coulda.

[samadams2000]

Andy Card probably nixed it.

[VOA]

Israel tried to kill bin Laden in 1996: paper

My fellow Americans,
See, I told you it wasn't my fault that Osama roamed free.
It was Israel's fault!!!
Signed,
Bill Clinton

[VOA]

According to the report, Mossad recruited a woman close to bin Laden with
the help of the intelligence service in her country. Neither the
woman's name nor nationality were given.

Wonder if the Mossad is just passing some disinformation...
so that Osama will get paranoid enough to kill every woman in his
entourage, get really stressed out for doing without sex, and then
be tracked by the NSA/CIA when he uses his satellite phone placing
a late-night booty call.

[Hilltop]

Heck, in the world of Osama there's always goats and innocent children.

The booty-call line made me spew.

You owe me a keyboard, I think.

Hehehe...