Posted on 12/10/2001 12:04:47 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:02:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Three Marines from the 15th Expeditionary Unit scan the horizon yesterday from their Afghan desert base, Camp Rhino.
December 10, 2001 -- Osama bin Laden's cohorts are trying to use a mule-trail escape route into Pakistan to board tiny boats hidden off the southern coast - and the U.S. military fears some have already succeeded, Pentagon sources said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Why, for goodness sake, did they wait so long to do this? It should have been done before we started bombing two months ago.
*EG*
"He wants his 86 virgins in the afterlife.This means that one of his sons will have to top him,thats why he always has at least 4 of his most loyal supporters with him at all times.(at least one of these 4 are his son)s."
Yeah but what good will even 86 virgins do him? Even those innocents would laugh at him if the rumors are true about his...size and no one would want seconds from him. It would be pointless.
Yemen, Somalia, and Indonesia are all on the sea, thus vulnerable to our Navy.
How nice of him to be so thoughtful!
I don't think money is one of his big problems.
"In 1999, an estimated 290 metric tons of heroin--the most of any source area--were produced in Southwest Asia, primarily in Afghanistan. Changing political and economic conditions in Afghanistan, along with continuing drought conditions in Southeast Asia, helped Afghanistan surpass Burma to become the world's leading heroin producer in 1999."
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs/647/index.htm
"This was one of the subjects that figured during the discussions of Ms Christina Rocca, US Assistant Secretary of State, with Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef, the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan, and his No. 2, Mr Sohail Shaheen, in Islamabad on August 2. According to the Frontier Post of Peshawar (August 3, 2001), while briefing pressmen after the discussions, a spokesman of the Taliban said: ``We have told the US team that Afghanistan was earning $12 billion a year from the poppy cultivation and we have eliminated the poppy from the country."
http://www.blonnet.com/businessline/2001/08/10/stories/041055ju.htm
Seems to me that the first thing you do is close all of the escape routes...Unless maybe, you don't want to catch him... But hey, What do I know? I'm just an armchair General...
Osama, sweetie, you're cruisin for an ignominious end (lesson our glorious grubbamint screws up again). How fitting. You're duck-bait, chum.
They reportedly admitted to Pakistani security forces that members of bin Laden's inner circle were trying to escape by ship....
A total of 105 pickup trucks carrying Taliban members and officials have entered Pakistan at three border crossings since Thursday, according to a senior Pakistani official in Chaman.
Amid heightened fears that some al Qaeda members have already fled, Pakistan yesterday rushed to send hundreds of extra soldiers and armed helicopters to the mountainous border region near bin Laden's hideout yesterday to cut off any mule-trail border crossings.
Okay, am I the ONLY one who thinks these statements add up strangely? (I won't even get into asking WHY were they able to stop a group of women but NOT the 105 trucks carrying men.)
Saber, it rather sounds as though they don't have any real concern that OBL can escape, eh? I wonder why....
Just tell tham we're going to borrow their airspace for a week or so...
and let 'em know that the seismic activity is nothing to worry about.
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