Pakistan 'delay let bin Laden escape US raid'

Telegraph ^ | Jan 29 2001 | Massoud Ansari

[endthematrix]

They did find uranium in Kandahar. AQ and their thugs have/had plenty of low-level nuclear junk.

[AdmSmith]

An uranium mine is no risk, the ore has to be processed a lot.

[endthematrix]

They found drums of Uranium-238 and cyanide. You eat it.

[AdmSmith]

No thanks, I prefer coffee, so I can write a uranium mine. ;-)

Yes, it was a lot of talks about the drums with uranium, but it was most likely just warheads with depleted uranium

[metesky]

Gary Bernsten and Jawbreaker play a prominent part in Bush at War by Bob Woodward

[Boot Hill]

Thanks for the map and the link. Did you notice that photo on your linked page that was captioned "British built fort at Zhob"? Given the British record in Afghanistan and Pakistan of repeatedly getting themselves massacred, I found it ironic that the British named that fort, Fort Sandeman!

[theshadow3581]

Pakistan 'delay let bin Laden escape US raid'....

sort of like having to go to a judge to get a warrant..time is everything when it comes to stopping these killers.........

[AdmSmith]

Thanks for the observation. The city of Zhob was earlier named Fort Sandeman. Those were the days...

from http://www.bdd.sdnpk.org/districts/Zhob/Zhob%20background.html
The tribes inhabiting the area are indigenous to the land. Zhob is the cradle of the Afghan race. Qais Abdul Rashid, who is believed to be one of the progenitors of the Pashtoons or Afghans, lived in the Suleiman mountains near Zhob. He was born in 575 AD and died in 661 AD. Natives call the place where he is buried "Da Kase Ghar" (the mountain of Qais). The Chinese pilgrim Hiven Tsiang who visited India in 629 AD, described the Afghans as living in Zhob. The area was ruled by Nadir Shah from 1736 to 1747 and by Ahmed Shah Abdali from 1747 to 1773. It was part of the Afghan dynasty when the British penetrated it in 1881. A number of areas now in Zhob, Killa Saifullah, and Shiny districts were ceded to British Indian Balochistan after the Durand line in 1893. They soon became a district.



Zhob district is the second oldest existing district of Balochistan, after Quetta. It was raised to district level in February 1890, under Captain MacIvor as the first Political Agent.

[OldFriend]

Couldn't agree more with your assessment that this is nothing more than leftist dirt being heaped on Pakistan and by extension, the President.

[VaBthang4]

The only way anyone could've sent word to Bin Laden that quickly would've been electronically...we would've intercepted that...so if that is what occured, we know it.

This is problemsome though...if we had a fix on his position, surely we had eyes on target...if he moved should we not have been able to hit him anyway?

Hmmm...

[b4its2late]

I still believe that binny is long since dead, but that's just me.

[Dog]

One of us is going to be proven right one day...:-)

[b4its2late]

I hope so. We may never know for absolute sure though unless we get some DNA.....

[Dog]

We'll know....we will.

[kenavi]

Unnamed sources from left wing newspapers have been bad mouthing Musharref for a long time. This is more of the same.

It is not: "While Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, has vowed to eliminate terrorists operating within his country, elements within Pakistan's ISI intelligence service may have sought to protect bin Laden."

[RightWhale]

ABC radio news today says that Alqaida is operating openly in Pakistan and the Pak military is nowhere in sight.

[FreeReign]

Unnamed sources from left wing newspapers have been bad mouthing Musharref for a long time. This is more of the same.

It is not: "While Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, has vowed to eliminate terrorists operating within his country, elements within Pakistan's ISI intelligence service may have sought to protect bin Laden."

Okay, unnamed sources from left wing newspapers have been bad mouthing Pakistan in general for a long time.

That said, I do appreciate the difference between "Musharref" and Pakistan's ISI as you point out. Yes, elements of the latter are more likely to betray us.

But, do notice the screaming Telegraph headline that says "Pakistan" and do notice that the sources are -- unnamed.

[Robert A Cook PE]

If true, it make sense.

Just because the head of a country says something, or supports something, that doesn't mean everybody below will be loyal or honest.

[FreeReign]

ABC radio news today says that Alqaida is operating openly in Pakistan and the Pak military is nowhere in sight.

The list of Al Qaeda catches in Pakistan is long.

They are probably referring to the Taliban and not Al Qaeda.

[nuconvert]

You're really getting into the Zhob, Adm.