Posted on 01/31/2008 6:27:12 PM PST by Dog
Islamabad, 31 Jan. (AKI) - US secret service agents operating in the remote border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan claim to have found five letters signed by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Saudi daily Al-Watan said on Thursday.
Citing unnamed local security sources, the newspaper said that the letters are allegedly handwritten in Arabic and bear Bin Laden's apparent signature and seal.
They appear to have been sent last December to some of Bin Laden's followers in the region.
One of the letters is addressed to the Taliban leader in Afghanistan's volatile southern province of Helmand, Mansoor Dadallah.
In the letter, Bin Laden reportedly offers condolences to Dadallah, the brother of Mullah Dadallah, late Taliban leader in Helmand, who was killed last year in a US air strike.
After his brother's death, Mansoor Dadullah claimed he had received a letter from Bin Laden in an interview with satellite Arabic TV network Al-Jazeera.
Mansoor spent several years in jail and was freed in March 2007 as part of a deal that secured the release of kidnapped Italian reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who had been held by Taliban militants for two weeks.
The letter addressed to Dadullah also urges the Taliban to step up its attacks on NATO troops deployed in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Al-Watan reported.
Western intelligence agents are currently analysing the letters for evidence of any contact with 14 alleged members of an Islamic fundamentalist group arrested in anti-terror raids in the north-east Spanish city of Barcelona on January 19.
Twelve Pakistani and two Indians allegedly belonging to Jamaat Al-Tabligh wal-Dawa (Society for Propagation and Preaching) were arrested in a series of police raids.
Police said they had found bomb-related material during the raids and that the operation was aimed at breaking up an Islamist terror network.
"local sources indicate Shah Mansoor and his men had gained a notorious reputation for extorting and robbing civilians."
They were mailed years ago.
The Post Office lost them.
Did they think to check the return address?
Just following in the footsteps of their Prophet, piss be upon him.
Interesting....he’s alive after all, apparently.
So what did the letters say and who were they to? Lemme guess—
Ayman, salaam alaykum.
The American infidels are kicking our pathetic asses. Get your butt into the nearest cave before another JDAM blows the Shi’ite out of you. Plan B—play victim card and ask to speak at Columbia to gain sympathy.
P.S. If they bring teddy bears, gear up the suicide vests.
-Osama
To: Nancy Pelosi
Washington, DC
Dearest Nancy,
I want to thank you again for your help for our cause. Your help has been invaluable in supporting our freedom fighters. Keep up the good work.
And tell Michael Moore, Barbara Streisand and the rest of the gang hello, they also have given their all for us.
All for now,
Snookums Binny Laden
Thanks, further confirms my belief that bin Laden is in
NE Afghanistan in the Nouristan area.
ROFL!
We need to level the mountain tops there.
>Mansoor Dadullah who was recently expelled from the Taliban for actions unbecoming of a head headchopper...:-)<
I can’t possibly imagine what that could be other than turning or repenting...
ping
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