[onyx]

This one has likely petered out. Next time we'll have him: dead cold or shackeled alive.


Gigantor did good. FR would have been first with the biggest story of the century thus far.

[B.Bumbleberry]

Pakistan Minister of Interior quoted above:

Confirmed two dozen terrorists caught Tuesday, and "certain terrorist hideouts were identified by them [locals]."

Sounds like they are closing in. So this story might yet have legs.

[Luis Gonzalez]

The left will be planting rumours in the Internet between now and election day in case Bush does truly capture Usama.

That would give them the only possibility to undermine Bush using the capture as a political tool.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, onyx. Was fun to tweak Taliban (and DNC) noses, if nothing else, lol.

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8 U.S. Denies Iran Report of Bin Laden's Capture ~ Reuters + AP, #30 | 2/28/04

Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, also said he had no information to suggest bin Laden had been caught.

"Things are going well, and we believe we will eventually catch all the leaders of al-Qaida, but I know nothing of that report," he said.

Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed denied the reported capture, saying it was "baseless news."