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Saad, Hamza, and Saif bin Laden can all be seen on a videotape released a couple years ago when Hamza married one of Mohammed Atef's daughters. There's at least one other one of importance, Mohammed, but we have little clue what he looks like.

I heard the reason they suspect these might well have been his sons is that the convoy they were apparently traveling in was one that the US had flagged as being a potential bin Laden escapee route. Of course, if he survived Tora Bora and has been able to stay under the radar this whole time (remember last summer the FBI counter-terrorism guy figured he was dead, a position still held by many on FR), he must be quite good at evading US intelligence. This whole thing may actually be a giant smokescreen to distract the CIA while bin Laden makes a mad dash for Iran.

Another issue mentioned today is that the fire fight that our troops had with this convoy was fierce, indicating the bodyguards were protecting someone high in the al-Qaida organization. Monsoor also mentioned that the Pakistan government, specifically Mushariff (sp), has stated in the past that UBL was NOT in his country. The inference is that the good guys are close to finding UBL.

Of course, Monsoor might be working for our new Office of Strategic Information!