Report says Bin Laden Under House Arrest (posted 9/12/2001)

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[hawaiian]

Bin Laden under house arrest: report Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia had placed alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden under house arrest in the wake of the suicide attacks on the United States, an Arabic online newspaper reported.

Quoting "fundamentalist Arab sources", Ilaf said the "Taliban have arrested Osama bin Laden before placing him under surveillance with several of his assistants," including the head of the Egyptian branch of Al-Jihad Ayman Al-Zawahri and bin Laden's military commander, Muhammad Atef Al-Makni.

"A number of Afghan fighters are under house arrest along with bin Laden," said the report late Wednesday.

But a diplomat at the Taliban's embassy in Abu Dhabi said he could not confirm the report.

"All we know is that he (bin Laden) is somewhere in Afghanistan, but we are not aware if he is under house arrest," the diplomat said.

Bin Laden and commander Atef have been indicted for the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Bin Laden has emerged as the prime suspects in yesterday's kamikaze hijacked passenger jet strikes on New York and Washington.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I won't believe it until I see it.

[newsperson999]

WANTED...CLICK

[eddie willers]

Break into the "house"...
take him outside....
and string him up.

It's the Code of the West.

[BunnySlippers]

One wonders if:
a. If this report turns out to be true ... and
b. If they can be convinced to turn him over.

[a_witness]

We need to interrogate him by any means necessary to determine the extent of his followers' capabilities.

[Cooter]

Sure. And I'll bet the Taliban won't turn him over to anyone until he been tried and convicted in an "Islamic court".

[linn37]

its more than likely a stall tactic

[Galtoid]

What is this nonsense? House arrest? House? Arrest? I don't trust them as far as I can nuke them.

[Fred Mertz]

Does he have one of those ankle bracelet thingies on, so we can monitor his movements?

[ClaireSolt]

This would be a dangerous diversion. Everyone who says we must run all the collaborators to ground in the US and elsewhere is correct.

[rockfish59]

looks like he's saying 'we're number one'!

i think he's riding around with clinton, down under.

[nopardons]

This won't stop anything at all. We need to just level Kabul, and all other places that harbor these scum.

[Satadru]

Times Of India is reporting this as well.

[Kevin Curry]

Yeah, and his "house" is the whole of Afghanistan.

[BunnySlippers]

Break into the "house"... take him outside.... and string him up.

They talked about McVeigh's crimes being so heinous that he deserved the indignity of a public execution. But this one ... Bin Laden. He deserves the most exquisite torture ... public and humiliating.

[jlogajan]

I don't trust them as far as I can nuke them.

I think we know what you were trying to say, but work on those metaphors a little, okay? :-)

[resistance]

And will the real Bin Laden please stand up. As wealthly as he is there are no doubt several look alikes ready and willing to take the fall for the real guy. Just handing over Bin Laden would not be nearly sufficient payment for the damage this man and his organization had wrought. The Taliban should be reduced to dust along with Iraq. All know terrorist training camps world wide should be made into either man made lakes or meteor craters depending on the depth of the water table. We don't want to see dead terrorists, we want to see big holes in the ground where the terrorists used to exist.