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| Perv: 'Nope. Binny's not here...' |
| 2002-07-01 |
| President Pervez Musharraf said Osama bin Laden was probably dead. "I doubt he is alive, and if he is alive he cannot be in Pakistan," Musharraf told reporters here. However, he said some members of al-Qaeda may have taken shelter in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The military president said it would be "almost impossible" for bin Laden to hide in the rugged tribal areas bordering Afghanistan "without being found" because he would be moving with a huge security entourage. About the only argument Perv makes is that Binny's bodyguard hasn't been found in Pakland. On FoxNews yesterday they were saying some members have been found in countries other than Pak, implying there's no body left to guard. But Binny could be quite well guarded by a handful of his own thugs — along with those of Fazlur Rehman or the "students" at Samiul Haq's Haqqania madrassah. Truth is, Binny could be alive or dead. My personal opinion is that he's alive for awhile, but incapacitated, otherwise his ego would have appeared on video to urge on the troops to greater feats. When he does die or did die there wouldn't be any announcement. I could be wrong — Mark Steyn thinks he's happily decomposing and the gummint hasn't let the news out for its own reasons. Fazl says the whole thing is a figment of our imagination, again for his own reasons. But my guess is that if he's still alive, he's alive in Pakistan, though he'll probably move across the border to Afghanistan when the time comes to die. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |