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Theresa
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 Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:15 pm Official Says U.S. Capture of bin Laden Close |
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| Quote: | By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, AP
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Sept. 4) - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.
"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.
Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months - when Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida operatives - Black said, "Yes, I would say this."
Black, who briefed a group of Pakistani journalists after talks with officials here Friday, said he could not predict exactly when bin Laden and other top al-Qaida fugitives would be nabbed.
"What I tell people, I would be surprised but not necessarily shocked if we wake up tomorrow and he's been caught along with all his lieutenants. That can happen because of the programs and infrastructure in place," he told Geo.
Bin Laden and his top associate, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding some place along the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Officials have divulged no solid intelligence about bin Laden's precise whereabouts, and it's not clear if they have any.
Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, and Black's visit comes weeks after Pakistani security forces captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in east Africa, and Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, a Pakistani computer expert allegedly linked to al-Qaida operatives around the world.
The arrests led to a terror warning in the United States, and arrests in Britain and the United Arab Emirates.
Black attended a meeting of the Pakistan-U.S. Joint Working Group on Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement in Islamabad on Thursday and Friday.
During the talks, Pakistan asked U.S. officials for more helicopters, surveillance and communications equipment to help Pakistani forces guard border areas near Afghanistan "more efficiently," a Pakistani official at the talks said.
"We got a positive response from the American officials," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Pakistan has deployed about 70,000 troops along the Afghan border and conducted several military operations this year in its lawless and largely autonomous tribal regions against al-Qaida suspects and their local supporters.
Black hailed Pakistan's efforts in counterterrorism - despite criticism from Western officials who say that elements of the former ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan still operate inside Pakistan.
"In terms of national programs and effectiveness, I would put Pakistan up against anyone else ... If you look at the arrests they have made, the information they have developed and the lives that have been saved, Pakistan is doing a great job," he said.
He added, however, that, "you can always do more."
09/04/04 13:38 EDT
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
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*Cue conspiracy theorists*
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Republican_Man
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| Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:21 pm |
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| Quote: | | *Cue conspiracy theorists* |
This is GREAT news! I knew this would happen soon! But yes, cue the conspiracy theorists--I know that lots of people have been saying that Bush was waiting to bring out bin Laden when the election neared.
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| Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:35 pm |
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I'll belieive it when I see it how many times have I heard on NBC nightly news that we were close I'll belieive it when we have him in handcuffs.
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Theresa
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| Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:38 pm |
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"Near to" doesn't mean "apprehended", LOL
There's another difference between parties right there. One is an optimist, one is a pessimist.
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:34 am |
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Lets change the title of that to "Bush administration trying to justify terror war, in time for elections"
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:49 am |
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| Defiant wrote: | | Lets change the title of that to "Bush administration trying to justify terror war, in time for elections" |
Right on schedule. 
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Theresa
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:35 am |
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^Wouldn't it suck to be so predictable?
I hope that he resists, and get's killed. A nice, massive, slow bleeding stomach wound that is beyond repair. I hear those are incredibly painful.
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 11:00 am |
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| Quote: | | Right on schedule. |
Yes. RIGHT ON SCHEDULE.
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:40 pm |
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| Theresa wrote: | ^Wouldn't it suck to be so predictable?
I hope that he resists, and get's killed. A nice, massive, slow bleeding stomach wound that is beyond repair. I hear those are incredibly painful. |
Yep that's just what we need. Turn him into a Martyr for his cause.
Though I do hope this intel is correct, we need to get that maniac before he can do something else. I don't care who does it. Bush, Kerry, hell even Nader (That is if some god like force splits the heavens and tells all to vote for Nader...)
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Theresa
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:47 pm |
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LOL
You'd rather he "go to trial internationally, and go to jail for life". He'd still be a martyr in his people's eyes. Martyrdom isn't death exclusive, you know.
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:53 pm |
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^Yeah, and no matter what this man, who doesn't deserve to live, must be dealt with. I too hope that this intel is very correct.
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:29 pm |
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I think that if hes captured, the second someone finds him, he will be shot. Every soldier over there wants revenge for 9/11 I imagine.
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| Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:41 pm |
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Right on Finally
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| Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:44 pm |
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Well, this could have happened for the election,  , but they could also be hoping that he will panic and be flushed out because he thinks they might know where he is, then captre him. If they properly knew his location they would have got him by now. If he's caught then I think a good number of soldiers are going to be kicking him and so on for what he did. He will be in a really bad shape by the end of it.
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| Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:13 pm |
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How do we know if Osama Bin Laden is even alive?
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Republican_Man
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| Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:17 pm |
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| chakotay99 wrote: | | How do we know if Osama Bin Laden is even alive? |
He IS alive, and tapes can prove it.
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| Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:22 am |
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And where is that beloved prick? Still eluding capture. To hell with that report.
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| Mon Oct 11, 2004 4:38 am |
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Must have been a slight miscalculation in the number of mountains he can hide in.
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| Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:27 am |
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You know what would be funny? If the government of the US already has Bin Laden, but won't reveal it until the end of october, just before the elections.. That way Bush would be really sure he'd win the elections.
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| Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:54 pm |
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| Belanna1985 wrote: | | You know what would be funny? If the government of the US already has Bin Laden, but won't reveal it until the end of october, just before the elections.. That way Bush would be really sure he'd win the elections. |
*sigh* I've heard so many Democrats and Bush haters saying that..... 
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Arellia
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| Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:43 pm |
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It would be nice if we found Bin Laden soon, and just because of the *conspriacy* theory, we'd almost be better off to reveal him after the election, in certain ways, with all the propoganda that would spill out. Such an annoying idea. We get bashed for capturing him, we get bashed for having not. *grumbles incoherently*
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| Wed Oct 13, 2004 1:54 am |
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Yes! Hopefully we will find Bin Laden soon.
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Puck
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| Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:59 pm |
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My friends friend was down in Mexico last weekend, and he told him that the paper reported that Usama Bin Laden had been caught in Kashmir. Anyone else heard anything of the sort? I don't really buy it considering: a) the source is a Mexican news paper and
b) it probably would have gotten US media attention already.
Anyhows, just curious to know if anyone else had heard?
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| Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:06 am |
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...I dunno...
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| Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:17 am |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | ^Yeah, and no matter what this man, who doesn't deserve to live, must be dealt with. |
Agreed. Any man who engages in mass murder, IMHO, should definitely not be allowed to live and should be showed no compassion whatsoever.
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