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| 2004-08-11 |
| If Osama bin Laden is directing plans for an attack on the United States - as Washington intelligence officials suspect - his instructions are likely coming out of the craggy mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the back of a donkey or under the shawl of an unassuming-looking villager. After the arrests of several top lieutenants, bin Laden and his right hand man, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, have learned their lessons well, Pakistani intelligence officials and international terrorism experts say. They don't use satellite or cellular phones, don't trust anyone outside their innermost circle and never come up for air. Messages from the men likely pass through the hands of many couriers, most of whom have no idea where they originated, before they are turned into e-mails or conveyed by phone calls to other militants. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
#6 his instructions are likely coming out of the craggy mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the back of a donkey or under the shawl of an unassuming-looking villager. does the said donkey bring back medical supplies to feed his ailing health ? I think it's karmic justice that his life now depends on Western medicine delivered on the back of a donkey Or perhaps one of his a$$hat friends have given him a new kidney after daisyclippers etc pounded tora bora .. On a side note , the said donkey is hopefully getting danger money or at least danger straw :P |
| Posted by: Anonymous6044 2004-08-11 14:26 |
| #5 This article has no new news, it could have been (and was) written over a year ago. But Dan’s point is certainly interesting and it does seem like we are being thrown a new tid-bit. This whole Iran thing seems like such a déjàvu of Iraq. |
| Posted by: B 2004-08-11 11:02 |
| #4 Messages from the men likely pass through the hands of many couriers, most of whom have no idea where they originated, before they are turned into e-mails or conveyed by phone calls to other militants. Assuming that there's any truth to the notion that Binny's chest is still heaving, using numerous couriers only delays the day of reckoning, assuming that everyone involved in fighting terrorism is intent on defeating it. Each little uncovered link uncovers another one, which uncovers yet another one, and it goes from there. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-11 10:54 |
| #3 OBL is more of an elusive creature than Elvis or Judge Crater. Some savvy IT guy is making all this up from his perch in Atherton. Probably laughing all the way to the bank betting on the price of oil! |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2004-08-11 07:41 |
| #2 How about it being a good way to hide the fact he is living in Urban Pakistan or Iran instead? |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-08-11 06:12 |
| #1 It just occurred to me, maintaining the myth of BL hiding in a small village between Pakistan and Afghanistan and only communicating by donkey mail is a good way for the AL-QAEDA management to hide the fact that BL is dead from their rank and file. |
| Posted by: Canaveral Dan 2004-08-11 05:58 |