[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

[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?

[BCrago66]

Osama Bin Ladin Captured: Iran State Radio

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

[Prince Charles]

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.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-bin-laden,0,502867.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[Timeout]

I repeat:

Has anyone in DC checked to see if the lights are blazing at the White House?