Osama caught - rumors abound...

2/28/04 | Gigantor

[BCrago66]

Sorry what's IRNA? Do they have a website or is it radio or TV?

[Types_with_Fist]

I've lost count, actually.

[Qwinn]

Really? Oh geez. I'm gonna go make myself some breakfast then.

Qwinn

[texasflower]

LOL!

[JennysCool]

Awright! Awright. You gots da good stuff! :-) I'm gonna put on some rare Folgers.

[kcvl]

Pakistan has not revealed the identity of the suspects captured in the counterterrorism operation in Wana, the fourth by the army to track down suspects since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Security officials caution they have no confirmed information on the whereabouts of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but say the operations are geared toward locating him.

They say Pakistani rapid reaction forces have been deployed to specific areas along the border with Afghanistan, a mountainous landscape that runs 2,000 miles from the Himalayas in Pakistan's northern territories to the desert of southwestern Baluchistan.

The latest operation in Wana began on Tuesday, and although authorities said it had ended, fresh paramilitary troops rolled into the town late Friday, setting up new checkpoints and examining documents.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=221947&category=&BCCode=&newsdate=2/28/2004

[Texasforever]

Breathe, dammit!!!

He's dead Jim.

[Fledermaus]

I'd love to know EXACTLY the choices Musharraf was given. I bet the ones going against us weren't nice.

[Just mythoughts]

Do you know if Rummy is still in Afghanistan?

[kcvl]

War on Terror
Iranian state radio reports bin Laden captured





Pakistani army spokesman denies it
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:57 a.m. February 28, 2004

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's state radio, quoting an unnamed source, said Saturday that Osama bin Laden was captured in Pakistan "a long time ago." A Pakistan army spokesman denied he was captured.

The report said that U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's visit to the region this week was in connection with the arrest.

The state radio said a reporter for its Pushtun service in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar "confirmed the news" that bin Laden had been captured in a tribal region in Pakistan. He said the news was from "a very reliable source in Peshawar, Pakistan," but the source was not identified.

Pakistani Army spokesman Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press that the report is completely untrue. "That information is wrong," he said.

A Pakistani military operation has been under way in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan and a Pakistani official said previously that members of al-Qaeda are being sought there, although bin laden was not a specific target.

Iranian state radio quoted its reporter as saying the arrest happened a long time ago.

"Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election," he said.

Homayoun Jarir, son-in-law of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said he could not confirm the report.

Shamim Shahed, the bureau chief for "The Nation," an English-language newspaper in Peshawar, was cited by the director of IRNA's Pashtun radio service as the source of the bin Laden report.

But Shahed denied in an AP interview ever telling the Iranian news service that bin Laden had been captured.

"I never said this, but I have for the last year been saying that he is not far away. He is within their (the Americans) reach, and they can declare him arrested anytime," Shahed said. He gave no evidence to back up that claim.

[BCrago66]

Osama Bin Ladin Captured: Iran State Radio

http://www.mehrnews.com/wfNewsDetails_en.aspx?NewsID=62398&t=International

[oceanperch]

Any media plans to film the cavity search?

[Nita Nupress]

P.S. - Nita, that's a win-win for me, then :-)

LOL! It's only fair. You tease me -- I tease you. :-)

[KQQL]

FNC NEVER BREAKS ANY IMPORTANT NEWS>...Get real

[sonofatpatcher2]

As of now, nothing on Drudge, AP, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc...

Hope this is true!!!!!!!

[Fledermaus]

A month or so ago, Monsoor Ijaz was swearing his sources put Osama in Iran.

[Prime Choice]

Awright! Awright. You gots da good stuff! :-)

Thanks. Join me for a spot o' java?

[JennysCool]

[BigSkyFreeper]

Iranian State Radio is announcing the capture of Osama as well.

[Just mythoughts]

True, if this is true I sure hope they bring in someone other then their weekend three.