Bin Laden 'seen in Pakistan'

George Fernandes | July 30, 2002

[Wallaby]

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Bin Laden 'seen in Pakistan'

Financial Times (London) WORLD NEWS; Pg. 4 By CHANNEL 4 NEWS July 30, 2002, Tuesday USA Edition 2

LONDON

George Fernandes, India's defence minister, has "unimpeachable evidence" that Osama bin Laden is alive and "moving from place to place in Pakistan", he told Channel 4 News yesterday. Sightings were made three months ago but

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"Frankly, it's typical of Mr George Fernandes to talk through his hat. This is a typical example of Indian propaganda which is meant just to discredit Pakistan."

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that was "no reason to believe that the situation has changed", he told the British broadcaster. Asked whether President Pervez Musharraf knew of Mr bin Laden's where- abouts, Mr Fernandes said: "The Pakistani intelligence - the ISI - knows where he is. Gen Musharraf is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and the ISI reports to him. The ISI is capable of doing its own thing. I can't say therefore for certain whether Musharraf knows about the man."

Pakistan's military spokesman, Maj Gen Rashid Qureshi, said, however: "Frankly, it's typical of Mr George Fernandes to talk through his hat. This is a typical example of Indian propaganda which is meant just to discredit Pakistan." Channel 4 News, London

[rwfromkansas]

hmmmm

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Not sure I believe this report!

[AmericaUnited]

Bin Laden 'seen in Pakistan'

Yawn... So was Elvis...

[BlackJack]

you beat me to it.......

[Cindy]

Hey Elvis, the Has Bin Laden has been seen!

[Rome2000]

Fernandes

The guy can't even spell his own last name corectly.

[piasa]

I thought his son was taking over operations....

[bybybill]

Bin Losingalotlately is checking out the virgins, that boy is one dead puppy.How do I know? If he was still stealing our air,we would have seen him by now.Nothing could energize his group of idiots more than him being alive. He`s not,hes`s dead

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

LOL the first thing that popped into my mind was "so was elvis "

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Dyalisis isnt easy to hide either! even if your rich you gotta buy supplies

[exnavy]

I wouldn't jump on this one to hard.

[ventana]

Well, what do you think? V's wife.

[TxBec]

really

also, since junior has taken over, why do we keep getting videos from papa?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"If he's alive we'll get him, if he's dead we got him".

[WyldKard]

As far as I'm concerned, Osama bin Laden died on Dec. 5th of renal failure, and was buried in an unmarked grave in SE Afganistan on the 6th. I have yet to see any real evidence to show that he is still alive. And good riddance!

[ASA Vet]

Here ya go Cindy.

[krodriguesdc]

I saw Elvis at Home Depot this past Sunday...

[txrangerette]

My guess is that he's either dead or
very ill. But to address this "seen
in Pakistan" story(& others like it),
why couldn't a Bin Laden stand-in be
deliberately seen there to prompt a
report such as this? Yes India could
be saying stuff to tweak the Paks, or
it could be a fake Osama as I opined.