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Location Of Osama Bin Laden
Osama
Bin Forgotten?
"The
most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our Number one
priority and we will not rest until we find him!"--- President George Bush
September 13, 2001
"I
want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted:
Dead or Alive,'"-
President George Bush, September 17, 2001
"...Secondly,
he is not escaping us. This is a guy, who, three months ago, was in control of a
county. Now he's maybe in control of a cave. He's on the run. Listen, a while
ago I said to the American people, our objective is more than bin Laden. But one
of the things for certain is we're going to get him running and keep him
running, and bring him to justice. And that's what's happening. He's on the run,
if he's running at all. So we don't know whether he's in cave with the door
shut, or a cave with the door open -- we just don't know...." -
President George Bush, in remarks at The Prairie Chapel Ranch, Crawford TX,
December 28,2001
"I
don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not
that important. It's not our priority." - President George Bush, March
13, 2002
Osama Bin
Laden is hiding in Pakistan in the northern tribal areas above Peshawar - an
area that is rugged, hilly, heavily forested. Most likely in a 20 square mile
area surrounding Peshawar.
The Pakistan
Government knows this and The United States CIA should know this
In
late 2005 The Central Intelligence Agency closed a unit that for a decade had
the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants. The unit, known
as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within
the CIA Counterterrorist Center
Pakistan
ISI officials know where Bin Laden is located
Al Jazeera Magazine 2005-The
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf may not be knowing where would al Qaeda
chief Osama Bin Laden be hiding within Pakistan's territorial limits, but ISI
officials are aware about his whereabouts, according to CIA officer Gary Schroen,
who spearheaded U.S.' search for Osama in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's tribal regions would
explode upon news of the death or capture of Bin Laden, which makes President
Musharraf afraid of the internal political consequences of finding Al Qaeda
chief that he doesn't even want to know where is he, Schroen said.
"I think the philosophy of
the Taliban, this fundamentalist view, is popular there. So Bin Laden, I think,
strikes them as heroic. He fought a jihad against the Russians, and he's
bloodied America's nose time and again," the CIA veteran said, adding that
regardless of how much reward money America offers, "Bin Laden would not be
captured and handed in".
Schroen claims that Musharraf
wasnt helping the U.S. forces to seriously crackdown on the Bin Laden.
"He's hiding in Pakistan in the northern tribal areas above Peshawar - an
area that is rugged, hilly, heavily forested. The U.S. government and the U.S.
military are not authorized by the Musharraf government to enter there
unilaterally. As long as he stays in place, it is going to be almost impossible
to find him," Schroen was quoted by The Daily Times as saying.
Schroen said earlier that he had
developed two plans to capture or kill Osama (in 1998 and then a year later),
but both were turned down by the CIA.
He said "I can only
speculate, but it is based on almost 20 years of dealing with the Pakistani
military and ISI officers. I think at some level, probably the colonel level,
there are officers probably in ISI who know where Bin Laden is, "A man of
that caliber (Bin Laden) could not be hidden out for that many years without
word getting out in the community. So, I think some people probably know within
ISI and the military." according to the paper.
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could get terror chief who's still planning 'American Hiroshima'
Paul L. Williams
2005, author of "Osama's Revenge" and a new book, "The Al Qaeda
Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming
Apocalypse,"-
Where in the world
is Osama bin Laden? Let's face it. He shouldn't be hard to find, especially from
a Predator, an aerial reconnaissance vehicle that can read the minute hand of a
wristwatch from an altitude of 26,000 feet. Bin Laden is very tall slightly
over 6'6" and incredibly thin, less than 150 pounds. He wears shalwar
kameez the loose-fitting tunics and baggy pants of al-Qaida and Taliban
soldiers and, when the weather is cold, he dons a camouflage jacket.
Although he was born in 1957 and
far from retirement age, the al-Qaida chieftain appears to be very old. His long
scraggly beard is pure white; his face is lined with countless wrinkles; and his
shoulders are hunched and rounded. He is bent forward to such a degree that he
seems to suffer from a form of osteoporosis. He is left-handed and walks with a
cane.
Osama is almost always surrounded
by fawning attendants who hail him not as Sultan bin Laden or Emir bin Laden but
rather as "awaited enlightened one," the title reserved for the Mahdi."
The Mahdi is the rightly guided
caliph who will appear during the last days of human history. His coming is
foretold by the Haddith, the sacred teachings that supplement the Quran. In such
writings, the Mahdi is depicted as the figure who will bring forth the "Day
of Islam," when all people throughout the world believers and
unbelievers alike will fall in submission before the throne of Allah.
Bin Laden possesses the
distinguishing marks of the Mahdi the high forehead, the prominent nose, the
gap between his teeth, and the black mole on his face. He is pleased to point
out these features to photographers and reporters from al-Jazeera and other
Arabic news outlets.
Despite his pre-eminence among
Muslims, the $25 million price tag on his head and the fact that his image is
omnipresent in marketplaces, stores, shops, murals on the sides of buildings
throughout the Middle East, no one has been able to find him.
This initially gave rise to
speculation that he had been killed by the bombings of al-Qaida cells and safe
homes at the launching of Operation Enduring Freedom on Oct. 7, 2001.
Such speculation was put to rest
by the appearance of Osama with his sidekick Ayman al-Zawahiri on Kabul
television in late October 2001. In the broadcast, the twosome sat before a
campfire with sticks and appeared like Muslim Boy Scouts about to roast some
marshmallows.
In November 2001, after coalition
forces seized control of Kandahar, Afghanistan, U. S. officials received word
that bin Laden and company were safely sequestered within an impregnable
mountain fortress that had been created 350 yards beneath solid rock at the
highest peak of the Spin Ghar or "White Mountains," a peak known as
Tora Bora.
Elaborate drawings of this
fortress were published in major newspapers throughout the world, including The
New York Times. The drawings depicted a vast underground complex that contained
a bakery, a hospital with ultrasound equipment, a hotel for 2,000 occupants, a
mosque, a library, an arsenal for weapons of mass destruction and a
hydro-electric plant.
And so the massive bombing of
Tora Bora began. For nearly two weeks, the mountain peak was pounded with
"bunker blasters" in an attempt to collapse the troglodyte lair of the
terrorists. At one point, a "daisy cutter" a 6,800 kilogram bomb,
the largest in the U.S. arsenal was dropped on the target.
At the end of the siege,
coalition forces combed the mountainside in search of hundreds of bodies. But
few bodies were found and only 19 emaciated and toothless captives could be
rounded up for the victory parade before the international press in Kandahar.
The vast underground complex did
not exist. It had been a figment of overactive imaginations of members of the
Northern Alliance that had been accepted without question by U.S. intelligence
officials.
Next came word that the elusive
bin Laden had regrouped his forces and was hiding in the mountainous region of
Shah-i-Kot. Two tall, thin and bearded men in shalwart kameez were spotted by an
aerial reconnaissance vehicle standing before a tarpaulin at the entrance to a
cave. U.S. military heads assumed that the tarpaulin was covering a machine-gun
post and that the men, because of their height, dress and posture, were Arabs
and, therefore, al-Qaida operatives.
Operation Anaconda, the plan to
encircle Shah-i-Kot and squeeze the al-Qaida and Taliban operatives out of their
hiding places, got underway on March 2, 2003. Fierce resistance was reported by
the coalition forces. Megaton bombs were dropped at the rate of 260 a day to
ferret out the terrorists. The reported enemy death toll rose and fell like the
fluctuations of a troubled currency: 100, 500, 200, 800, 300. When the fighting
came to an end on March 12, only 10 enemy soldiers were taken prisoner and less
than 20 bodies were found within the battle zone. The full military offensive,
replete with the dropping of 3,250 bombs, had been conducted on largely
uninhabited territory.
In the wake of the first phase of
Operation Enduring Freedom, U.S. intelligence sources were able to confirm over
500 al-Qaida and Taliban soldiers had fled Afghanistan by scaling the mountains
in the south along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and cutting through
Afghanistan's southernmost provinces toward the border with Iran, where they
found safe haven.
The enemy operatives within Iran
included Saad bin Laden, Osama's eldest son; Yaaz bin Sifat, a top-ranking al-Qaida
planner; Mohammed Islam Haani, the major of Kabul under the Taliban; and Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, who had been in charge of al-Qaida's attacks on Europe. By
spring of 2002, al Zawahiri, bin Laden's top lieutenant, was spotted in Iran,
where he reportedly donned the disguise of an Iranian cleric with a black turban
and a dyed beard.
Within Iran, the al-Qaida guests
were placed in safe houses by SAVAMA, the Iranian intelligence service. These
villas, located in southern Iran, with saunas and swimming pools, are lavish
even by American standards. The operatives remain in this villa at this writing.
But where was Osama?
In 2003, Pakistan's
Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, informed CIA officials that the al-Qaida head
was sequestered in the wilds of Waziristan, a region between Balochistan and the
North West Frontier in Pakistan.
In July 2003, Pakistan's
President Pervez Musharraf shelled out millions in cold cash (thanks to the
largesse of the CIA) to tribal chieftains within Northern Waziristan in order to
obtain permission for Pakistani troops to enter their semi-autonomous tribal
territories. It was the first time that such troops were allowed to set foot
within the province since the creation of Pakistan in 1947.
It was small surprise to many
observers that the payments were for nothing. The Pakistani troops combed the
Tirah and Shawai valleys and discovered not a trace of Osama or any al-Qaida
officials.
Attention now turned to South
Waziristan. In March 2004, President Musharraf, upon receiving the consent of
the chieftains, sent an army of 70,000 into the province. A welter of excitement
followed the invasion when Musharraf announced that a high value target had been
pinned down. The speculation, fueled by U.S. military sources, was that it was
bin Laden or al-Zawahiri. But neither one showed up. There were foreign
militants in the area, but less than 600, far fewer than the Pakistani
authorities claimed, and most were Uzbeks.
The hunt for Osama bin Laden had
grown cold. There were no confirmed sightings; no intercepts of satellite phone
calls; no evidence of e-mails. The only assurance of his existence came from his
periodic appearances on al-Jazeera. He had performed the most remarkable
disappearing act in human history.
Still and all, stories surfaced
that he had made his way to Chechnya and that he was safely sequestered among
the Uighurs in China.
Where is Osama bin Laden?
His whereabouts cannot be
pinpointed by official military and intelligence sources, despite the drones
that fly day and night over the Afghan-Pakistani border. Nor can his hiding
place be determined by members of the media, who continue to provide c-notes to
Pashtuns and Tajiks for useless information.
To discover the whereabouts of
the world's most wanted man, it is best to turn to unofficial yet reliable
sources, such as the professional soldiers for paramilitary corporations that
attend the annual Soldier of Fortune convention in Las Vegas. The mercenaries
"mercs" for short know where he is since they are anxious
albeit not willing to collect the $25 million bounty.
Osama bin Laden is alive and well
and living in the valley of Dir within the North West Frontier Province of
Pakistan. He has been there since he escaped from Tora Bora in December 2001.
To substantiate this claim, the
mercs produce shabnamas or "night letters" that are circulated among
the various tribes within the frontier. The night letters contain updates of
Osama at work and play and photos of the al-Qaida leader with Maulvi Sufi
Mohamed, an old and revered Muslim scholar, who maintains a Taliban-style rule
over the valley of Dir with public executions of adulterers, homosexuals,
apostates and Christian infidels.
Mercs point out that news of
Osama's whereabouts was even published on the front page of the Daily Ummat, the
leading Urdu language paper of Karachi, on Aug. 10, 2003. Unfortunately, no one
in the U.S. defense department let alone the U. S. intelligence community
took heed of the article with the smiling face of the great emir before the
invasions of Waziristan.
Dir remains within the Malakand
Pass, the site of some of the fiercest skirmishes under the British Raj. A
Pakistani army fort still stands where the young Winston Churchill shot down
rebels and received a citation for heroism. Ironically, it now serves as the
headquarters of the leader of the Mujahadeen who has unleashed a wave of
terrorist attacks against Great Britain.
Despite the bounty, bin Laden
remains not only safe and secure in Dir but also free to travel to other parts
of the country, including regular trips to Peshawar and the smuggler-infested
bazaar town of Rebat at the center of "the Devil's Triangle," the
conjunction of the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.
No Muslim will dare to capture or
kill him not even a squadron of elite military personnel from the Musharraf
government, let alone a group of professional bounty hunters. It is the duty of
all Muslims to honor the revered leader of the Mujahadeen, who has been ordained
to bring forth the Day of Islam.
What's more, bin Laden is
protected by milmastia the Islamic code of hospitality that demands
protection for fellow Muslims who seek shelter in their country even if such
protection means risking their lives. Believing Muslims know that the $25
million reward comes with the price tag of apostasy and eternal damnation. Mercs
point out that Pakistani soldiers and ISI officials are even unwilling to collar
Osama and his cohorts when they appear in Peshawar. They don't want to go to
hell for money or Musharraf.
Bin Laden remains protected by
yet another factor. Any concerted attempt by the United States to invade any
part of the North West Frontier Province by crossing the 680-mile border between
Afghanistan and Pakistan in an effort to capture the world's most wanted man
will be met by the resistance of the vast majority of 20 million Muslims who
inhabit the formidable area.
Such resistance could lead to the
toppling of the Musharraf regime with the result that Pakistan, with its arsenal
of strategic nuclear weapons, would fall under the control of the radical
mullahs, who wait in the wings.
At present, the way to Dir,
according to the mercs, remains strewn with the bodies of would-be bounty
hunters. They have been cast in the pines beside the dirt road. All have been
tortured, stripped naked and castrated. Their eyeballs have been plucked from
their sockets; their ears have been hacked off; and their tongues have been
ripped from their mouths. Notes have been strapped to the groin of every victim.
"Do not be angry or shocked," the notes say in Pashtu. "These are
the bodies of agents of the USA."
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