PESHAWAR: An MI6/SAS team has joined US Special Forces in earthquake-devastated Balakot to search for Osama Bin Laden among thousands of victims still buried, British newspaper the Sunday Express reports. US President George W Bush approved a full-scale surveillance operation along the remote Afghan-Pakistan border where extremists have training camps. The team, flown in from a high-security base in Afghanistan, is equipped with imagery and eavesdropping technology, high-tech weapons systems and MI6 linguists to try to locate the most wanted âterroristâ in the world.Security officers in London and Washington are anxious not to discuss whether Bin Laden is dead or has escaped the devastation from the 7.6-magnitude earthquake. But days before it struck, an American satellite had spotted an Al Qaeda training camp in a remote area and obtained high-resolution close-ups. A senior intelligence officer in Washington told the Sunday Express: âOne of those photos bore a remarkable resemblance to Bin Laden. His face looked thinner, which is in keeping with our reports that his kidney condition has worsened.â In recent weeks, both MI6 and the CIA have established that Bin Laden has received a portable kidney dialysis machine from China but it requires electricity to power it. Drones, unmanned aircraft that US Special Forces launched from Afghanistan last week, have reported that the area along the border has lost all power supplies. President Bush, who has said he wants Bin Laden âdead or aliveâ, is closely monitoring the operation.
| Yeah, right. I don't think I'd get my hopes up. While the justice of it all would indeed be poetic, the finger of God doesn't usually seem to possess such unerring accuracy. On the other hand, it would be highly amusing to announce that we had found the carcass, whether we found anyone resembling him or not. There are lotsa corpses that could be made up to look like him, especially in a somewhat decomposed state. At the very least, it'd tighten a few turbans and it'd be all sorts of good propaganda for the Lutherans, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, and Jains. |
