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Bin Laden 'Alive And Well' In Mountains
Independent (UK) ^ | 3-7-2003 | Phil Reeves

Posted on 03/06/2003 6:12:49 PM PST by blam

Bin Laden 'alive and well' in mountains

By Phil Reeves, Asia Correspondent
07 March 2003

Pakistani intelligence officials claimed yesterday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged leader of al-Qa'ida who was captured last week, told his interrogators that Osama bin Laden was alive and well, and hiding in mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The captive, who is accused of masterminding the 11 September atrocities and is now under relentless questioning by US intelligence agents at a secret location, has said that he met Bin Laden recently, a Pakistani intelligence official told Associated Press. The official, who claims to have participated in his early interrogation, said the meeting either took place in Pakistan's south-western Baluchistan province or on the Afghan border.

The latter would mean that Bin Laden is in a wild, mountainous area, which is being scoured and bombed by US troops and aircraft based at Bagram air base, near Kabul. According to some reports, he is changing his location nightly, protected by only a small number of guards.

Other claims about his presence in Pakistan appeared in The New York Times yesterday, which reported that papers, CD-Roms and a computer seized during the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed showed that the two men met some time last month, possibly in Rawalpindi.

"There is now no doubt that he is alive and well," a senior Pakistani official said. "We have documents that show he is alive and in this region."

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in Rawalpindi in a joint raid by CIA and Pakistani agents – intriguingly, at the home of an activist of the Jamaat-e-Islami religious party, which has close links to Pakistani intelligence – and handed to the Americans.

Pakistan's Information Minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, categorically denied yesterday that Bin Laden could be in hiding in Pakistan. He also denied suggestions that Bin Laden was hiding in the wider region.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alive; bin; laden; mountains; obltrail; well

1 posted on 03/06/2003 6:12:49 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
He is near Chaghai...
2 posted on 03/06/2003 6:18:41 PM PST by Dog (Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne)
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To: blam
So where is a video of the happy smiling fellow
3 posted on 03/06/2003 6:20:23 PM PST by uncbob ( building tomorrow)
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To: Dog
Sources indicate he is actually in Ahmfugged, having moved there from Manahmscrood.
4 posted on 03/06/2003 6:24:50 PM PST by exit82
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To: blam
I won't believe he's dead until I see the living proof.
5 posted on 03/06/2003 6:26:23 PM PST by Consort
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To: exit82
Sources indicate he is actually in Ahmfugged, having moved there from Manahmscrood.

Oh man, that was one of the funniest things I've read on FR in some time.

ROTFLMAO!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

6 posted on 03/06/2003 6:27:04 PM PST by section9 (The girl in the picture is Major Motoko Kusanagi from "Ghost In the Shell". Any questions?)
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To: exit82
Sources indicate he is actually in Ahmfugged, having moved there from Manahmscrood.

Is that anywhere near Goandahel or Awanmamami?

7 posted on 03/06/2003 6:27:54 PM PST by TrappedInLiberalHell (Let's Iraq and Roll!)
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To: exit82
Sources indicate he is actually in Ahmfugged, having moved there from Manahmscrood.

And he is reportedly asking his aides, "Why must I learn to pronounce the word LOUIMA?"

8 posted on 03/06/2003 6:32:23 PM PST by ErnBatavia ((Bumperootus!))
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To: section9
Sources indicate he is actually in Ahmfugged, having moved there from Manahmscrood

I knew it!!

9 posted on 03/06/2003 6:33:28 PM PST by harry palmer (I just won our office pool!)
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But..But...just yesterday I saw him shopping at RibaSmith Supermarket in Panama.

Actually, I have believed for too long that he is dead because of either renal failure or he was blown to bits. Therefore, there would have to be a lot of convincing for me to change my mind. Up until now, I'm not buying it.

10 posted on 03/06/2003 7:02:13 PM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
I thought he was in Buggerjee!
11 posted on 03/06/2003 7:09:43 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty
No. Panajuchi land. Shees!!! Can't you read? : )
12 posted on 03/06/2003 7:12:29 PM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: sheik yerbouty
It's also spelled Panahuchee or Panahuchi.
13 posted on 03/06/2003 7:16:45 PM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: blam
Bin Laden 'alive and well' in mountains

Doesn't say how he's sleeping at night

14 posted on 03/06/2003 7:29:12 PM PST by Mister Baredog ((God Bless GW Bush))
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To: blam
Our new Office of Strategic Information is working 24/7.

I just love it!

15 posted on 03/06/2003 7:33:17 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)
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