[JustPiper]

Are you saying Sean that we had him surrounded but not in custody as you stated before? And the Telegraph spewing this, how covert will it be now?

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

No, I am saying that we captured (past tense) Osama bin Laden in Iran January 20th 2004. The report was about an US SOF operation which was "mission complete'.

The Sunday Telegraph story and the current feeding frenzy going on because of it is about an SOF op to capture OBL in NW Pakistan THAT HAS NOT OCCURED YET.

Nobody in their right mind compromises a US SOF Op on foreign territory before it occurs. Nobody.

See the difference?

NEIN reported upon a mission complete OBL capture.

These other schmucks are reporting a virtual verbatim report that has not occured yet.

Therefore, my opinion is that the Sunday Telegraph story and all the others reporting this are full of crapola, the capture occured a month ago in a completely different country.

NEIN will be updating what we know shortly.

Suffice it to say that the original source has once again reiterated the information in light of the claims by the UK tabloids.