[Revel]

U.S., Pakistan Deny They're Closing in on Osama

U.S., Pakistan Deny They're Closing in on Osama

Feb23 ,8 : 08AM (ET)

By Mike Collett-White and David Brunnstrom
KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's whereabouts remain a mystery to U.S. and Pakistani forces as they crank up efforts to flush out al Qaeda and Taliban rebels hiding near Afghanistan's eastern frontier, officials said on Monday.

U.S. military officials in Kabul have boldly predicted his capture in 2004, and Britain's Sunday Express weekly reported that the world's most wanted man was "boxed in" by U.S. and British special forces in the rugged Pakistani mountains along the Afghan border.

The newspaper said bin Laden was within a 10 mile by 10 mile area, being monitored by a U.S. spy satellite.

"As far as the reports of Osama bin Laden's location, I don't take much credence in them because if we knew where he was in Afghanistan, we would go get him and if the Pakistanis knew where he was in Pakistan they would go get him," U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty said.

"We continue to have rumors over the past two years," he told a news briefing in Kabul, when asked about speculation that bin Laden had been spotted.

Pakistani officials dismissed the report that located bin Laden in mountains north of the Pakistani city of Quetta.

"That area is in Pakistan but there is nothing there, life is absolutely normal -- you can go and see," said Pakistani military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan. "There is no operation being conducted there and there are no foreign troops there."

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/45776|top|02-23-2004::08:11|reuters.html


to catwomen... i might be heading to the eye of the eagle..!!

alaah akbaar
daleel_almojahid

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alaaah akbaar
Daleel_Almojahid

Of course the link he provided does not work. But poor Daleel is insistant that our forces are nowhere near where reports say they are.

[TexKat]

Go figure.

"As far as the reports of Osama bin Laden's location, I don't take much credence in them because if we knew where he was in Afghanistan, we would go get him and if the Pakistanis knew where he was in Pakistan they would go get him," U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty said.

"We continue to have rumors over the past two years," he told a news briefing in Kabul, when asked about speculation that bin Laden had been spotted.

Pakistani officials dismissed the report that located bin Laden in mountains north of the Pakistani city of Quetta.

"That area is in Pakistan but there is nothing there, life is absolutely normal -- you can go and see," said Pakistani military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan. "There is no operation being conducted there and there are no foreign troops there."

NOT ABOUT INDIVIDUALS

Hilferty distanced himself from recent remarks he made that he was "sure" bin Laden and Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would be caught this year, reverting to past U.S. statements that the "war on terror" was not only about catching individuals.

"Obviously the global war on terrorism is about much more than a person or two people, it is about terrorism against people in general," he said.

[nw_arizona_granny]

The eye of the eagle.

I did a google search for:

heading to the eye of the eagle

And think that I scared my self.

On page 14, there is a link to "Saw an Eagle Ray"
(at Provo in the Caribbean)

and it is an Eagle Ray, that he saw while Scuba Diving.

So we are back to water, boats and the arabs who wanted to
learn how to dive, but not how to come up, about a month ago.

http://dive.scubadiving.com/members/tripreports.php?s=2443

google search for:
1424 heading to the eye of the eagle

On page 2, more eagle Rays and the Department of the Defense, which crashed this old machine.

We were watching for the eagle in the sky, while they were playing with crashing ships.