Posted on 05/26/2008 6:50:37 PM PDT by melt
A top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has rejected reports that al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, and other leaders are hiding in his region.
"The al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden is dead, and the Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, are not in our territory," he said in an interview broadcast by a satellite television network.
Funeral prayers have been said for Osama bin Laden over the years with one reported by a Pakistani news organisation, and another in an Egyptian newspaper as far back as December 2001.
This report quoted an official of the Taliban saying that he had suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death.
The news has been reported that he died of heart and kidney disorders. Americans and Pakistani leaders have suggested that he was one, killed in the US bombing of Afghanistan, died of illness later, or just died.
The pro-Taliban leader who is based in Pakistan's tribal area of South Waziristan denied hosting the Saudi leader in local villages, as US intelligence officials suspect.
Mehsud also rejected claims by the government in Islamabad that he was responsible for the assassination in December of Pakistan People's Party leader, Benazir Bhutto. "It wasn't us who killed Bhutto," he said.
He was quoted saying that the ex Prime minister was murdered because of the reason her leak to the media.
Benazir Bhutto had said Osama Bin Laden was murdered live on a British televevision interview with David Frost of the BBC on 2nd November 2007 has Benazir Bhutto mentioning that Osama Bin Laden was murdered 2 minutes into the video.
(Excerpt) Read more at daily.pk ...
How the hell do you find a body under ground, somewhere in Agh/Pak? This is a sick joke. Bush should have come out a long time ago, and called thier bluff... Said as far as he can tell, Osama's dead.
If OBL was murdered on live TV, show us the clip.
That is the report I refer to if I refer to any report. 15 Dec '01, pneumonia.
That is the report I refer to if I refer to any report. 15 Dec '01, pneumonia.
LOL!!
Bingo -
And remember for AQ, it is much easier to spin the truth than to hide a lie -
UBL will get "got" one of these days - And the world will know it within days of it happening (if not hours). We have guys risking all 24/7 to make this happen....
Whom did she name (sorry, my audio card is on the fritz)?
Hold on, I'll go back and see if I can understand it. Goes by rather quickly and no fair docking me for spelling :-)I'll do my best.
LibWhacker, if I understood correctly she said Omar Sheikh. Not sure if spelling is correct, but that’s pretty close I think.
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