Osama's two sons captured by US officers: Pak minister

Islamic Republic News Agency ^ | March 7, 2003 | IRNA

[tessalu]

Osama's two sons captured by US officers: Pak minister

Islamabad, March 7, IRNA - The American forces have captured two of the sons of Osama bin Laden in an operation in a border area inside Afghanistan, a Pakistani provincial minister said on Friday. Home Minister of the southern Balochistan Province Sardar Sanaullah Zehri told reporters in Quetta that the Osama's sons are among eight persons captured during the operation. He said according to his information Osama's sons were injured. He added that eight al-Qaeda men have been killed in an operation in which Saad and Hamza bin Laden were arrested in the Rabat region in Afghanistan. Zahri said the eight injured, too, are in the custody of the American forces. Saad, believed to be 23, and bin Laden's eldest son, is also on the America's list of most-wanted terrorists and has been said to be a rising star in the network. Zahri said the provincial government has deployed more para-military forces along the Pak-Afghan border to block the entry into Pakistani territory of fleeing al-Qaeda members. "We have sealed the border with Afghanistan and have put our border forces on alert," the Home Minister said. Reports from Balochistan said that the arrested al-Qaeda people have been shifted to a hospital in Helmand Province. The operations against al-Qaeda have been intensified following the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in Pakistan last Saturday. Reports quoted unnamed Pakistani intelligence agents as saying that letters recovered from Khalid Sheikh say that Osama bin Laden is alive. President General Pervez Musharraf said in a television interview that Osama is alive but unlikely in Pakistan. Reports say that operations have also been launched in Pakistan's southern Balochistan and northern Chitral provinces, bordering Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province. However, Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed denied reports about any operations in search of Osama in Pakistan. He said that no one knows about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. TK/NA/AR End

[js1138]

This dead cat certainly has nine lives.

[Lee Heggy]

I hope this is true.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The United States Office of Strategic Information

[tessalu]

This report is out of Islamabad, Pakistan. It says the 2 sons have been captured. I talked to a person living in Islamabad last evening, and he thinks that binLaden is dead and was killed in Tora Bora. I think that binLaden is dead, for his last picture looked like a spook, but binLaden has really not been seen, and I think that so far, we just do not have the proof that we would like to have.

[lunatic12]

All news from Belushistan should be taken with a grain of salt... and a cheeseburger.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Conflict here?:

Pakistan, US deny capture of Osama's sons

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!

You getting this figured out yet?