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| Bin Laden Hiding On China Border, Reports |
| 2006-07-21 |
| Islamabad, 21 July (AKI) - The Pakistani authorities on Thursday ordered the evacuation of a northern area of the country, near the border with China, of tourists and foreigners after receiving intelligence reports of the possible presence of Osama bin Laden in the area. According to Arab daily al-Hayat, the presence of the al-Qaeda leader was reported in the extreme north of Pakistan in an area that borders China and Afghanistan. For this reason hundreds of tourists - most of them European - were made to leave the Chalinji Pass and the Wakhan corridor and the security forces closed all access to the area. The intelligence reports that had reached Islamabad indicated that bin Laden and his deputy Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri - along with other leading figures of the al-Qaeda terror network - had decided to use the area bordering China as a secure refuge as it is not controlled by the US military. Al-Hayat says the reports were confirmed by Western embassy sources in Islamabad, who indicated that the choice of sticking near the China border was because US military bombers would not attack that area for fear of hitting China. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #17 Curiously, this is the area where Debka has been placing OBL since 2002. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2006-07-21 18:00 |
| #16 (It isn't THE Manolo, is it? Love that cat in the Express.) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-07-21 15:57 |
| #15 Send those EU tourists to the other tourist mecca in Lebanon...lots of hotel rooms opening up. |
| Posted by: Inspector Clueso 2006-07-21 14:49 |
| #14 Manolo,as you can see, I am not the only one who spells it wrong. http://theoak.com/cgi-bin/pol/pol.pl?read=153170 I do have a good collection of shoes though. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2006-07-21 12:03 |
| #13 If I was Al Queda I'd be reporting false sightings all the time to screw with the west and the media and make it feel like Binnie is everywhere. I'd go so far as to hire impersonators to walk around France and get arrested to make folks look stupid. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-07-21 11:47 |
| #12 I saw Bin Laden in the mirror this morning. |
| Posted by: Osama Bin Laden 2006-07-21 10:59 |
| #11 "Maybe he thinks he's beat us, now on to another great satin, China." I'm not sure how good the satin is in China, but the silk is very nice. [/ridicule] -M |
| Posted by: Manolo 2006-07-21 10:59 |
| #10 obl is selling magazines door to door in my neighborhood. |
| Posted by: Xenophon 2006-07-21 10:57 |
| #9 I saw Bin Laden at a Burger King in Hamtramck, MI. |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-07-21 10:38 |
| #8 I saw Bin Laden at a ZZ Top concert. |
| Posted by: Elmaitle Phuter1114 2006-07-21 10:15 |
| #7 I saw Bin Laden at the corner 7-11. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-07-21 10:00 |
| #6 I saw Bin Laden in Graceland. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2006-07-21 09:56 |
| #5 We can put a 500 pound bomb in a living room window, and we would worry about hitting China? Maybe he thinks he's beat us, now on to another great satin, China. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2006-07-21 09:45 |
| #4 The Pakistani authorities sed, Bin Laden |
| Posted by: RD 2006-07-21 09:42 |
| #3 Or the Paks have dismantled and are sending one of their new F-16s to China for study |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-21 09:37 |
| #2 Quite possibly the Chinese are sending a shipment of new ballistic missile parts and the Pak authorities don't want anyone near the highway area. |
| Posted by: john 2006-07-21 09:31 |
| #1 ISI: "Osama, you were spotted. We have to get you outta here without being seen. Wait til we get the tourists out, then...." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-21 09:28 |