Posted on 09/29/2001 12:06:38 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
DUBAI, Sept 29 (Reuters ) - Qatar's al-Jazeera television said on Saturday Afghan security forces had arrested five people, including three Americans, near the border with Iran with maps of sites of Osama bin Laden's group.
It said a military source from bin Laden's al Qaeda group telephoned its correspondent in Islamabad and said the three Americans were from the U.S. Special Forces and had modern weapons and some maps of al Qaeda sites.
"The five were arrested, three Americans and two Afghans, who were trained in the U.S. Special Forces and have U.S. citizenship. The three Americans are also from the U.S. Special Forces," the correspondent quoted the source, who he said usually called journalists, as saying.
"They had some modern weapons and some maps of al Qaeda sites," the source was quoted as saying. "They were on a reconnassiance mission to know the territory of al Qaeda".
He said pictures of the men would be released soon. ((Gulf newsroom, +971 4 391 8301, fax +971 4 391 8335, dubai.newsroom@reuters.com))
These boys will probably die.
"It takes an Apache to catch an Apache"
~~General Crook.
The time to ROLL is gettin close !
This ain't Macedonia.
The boys are in for a rough ride, the moslems often videotape torture killings and spread the tapes around for psyops value.
God Bless and Protect our men and women who are fighting for American Freedom.
This will only unite all Afghans against the "foreign invader".
DUBAI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Qatar's al-Jazeera television said on Saturday that Afghan security forces had seized five members of the U.S. Special Forces near the border with Iran on a reconnaissance mission against Osama bin Laden's group.
It said a military source from bin Laden's al Qaeda group telephoned its correspondent in Islamabad and said that the five -- three Americans and two Afghans with U.S. citizenship -- were from the U.S. Special Forces and had modern weapons and some maps of al Qaeda sites.
The United States has named Afghan-based militant bin Laden and his al Qaeda followers as the prime suspects in the deadly September 11 suicide airliner attacks on New York and Washington.
"The five were arrested, three Americans and two Afghans, who were trained in the U.S. Special Forces and have U.S. citizenship. The three Americans are also from the U.S. Special Forces," the correspondent quoted the source as saying.
"They had some modern weapons and some maps of al Qaeda sites," the source was reported as saying. "They were on a reconnaissance mission to know the territory of al Qaeda."
He said pictures of the men would be released soon.
U.S. media said on Friday small groups of U.S. Special Forces had been operating in the rugged Muslim state in recent days, but Pentagon and other U.S. officials declined to comment.
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