[POA2]

Bin Laden isn't likely to throw his troops away. While his escape might preceed theirs by a few days or even a few weeks, he will be looking to get them disengaged and out of there as soon as possible, after he is safe, to preserve them for future use. The longer the enemy continues fighting hard in the Shakai, the more convinced I am that both Bin Laden and Zawahiri are still close by.

Agree with this sediment - Though, the frustrating notion of him having slipped off into Iran does bother me (considering we don't have the number of sources within Iran which could tip us off to confirm this possibility)

I know Moonsor (sp) has been saying this now for 9 months (he's in Iran) - but Moonsor has been saying lots of junk that never comes true as well-

[jeffers]

That would be Mansoor Ijaz, perhaps?

The guy who said that two convoys of 30 Iranian trucks each entered Iraq with WMD heads back in January, headed for US troops in Baghdad?

Yeah, I know that guy.

He wasn't always such a loon though.

Back in the mid 90's he dumped a bunch of money on Clinton's campaign to try and get Bill to accept all the passport data the Sudan had collected on AQ people moving in and out of the country.

Bill didn't bite, but I wish he had.

Keep repeating to yourself, the objective on the Pak-Afghan border isn't to catch any HVTs, it is to deny AQ long term haven in the area. That's some ugly country in there, too easy for one or two guys to slip out....but if we do get us a big fish, so much the better.

[nuconvert]

I think one of them is closer to Iraq......like in Iran.
That's my 2 cents.