Posted on 10/18/2010 3:14:42 AM PDT by John W
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said.
"Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave," said the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the intelligence matters involved.
Rather, al Qaeda's top leadership is believed to be living in relative comfort, protected by locals and some members of the Pakistani intelligence services, the official said.
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This is news? I might be wrong, but hasn’t he been hiding there for awhile?
also, does the 'gubmint' care 'bout binnie anymore?!
Osama Bin Laden's New Terror Tape
Also:
Bin Laden issues new threat in tape (3/25/2010)
He is still around.
Each will be put in the ground one of these nights....but time was always on their side in the short term range once they decided to seek shelter in the Pak border regions...The CIA is to risk adverse in terms of hitting targets and gathering Intel....If the Mil side was put in charge of finding their own targets we could tighten our OODA loop enough to increase the odds of nailing these SOBs.
Boogie men always dance on que ( as long as the get their check from the CIA).
The population is so cynical they would see through a surprise pretty quckly.
“protected by locals and some members of the Pakistani intelligence services”
I have no doubt that elements of the Pakistani intelligence service know exactly where they are at and are providing protection.
Knowing someone remains alive and knowing someones given location are two separate realities, both completely conceivably true.
There are numerous ways to conclude (even verify to a set date) that someone is/was alive, without being able to pinpoint their location in any actionable sense.
When one understands the region of the world where he is located along with the logistic complexities regarding both Intel and DA Ops, one understands how he has remained alive.
“it started because of equipment purchases that could be duel use....”
I thought it was started based on his sickly appearance at the time
He’s dead, Jim.
Here we go!
At one time there was no shortage of bin laden videos but no new ones for a long, long time. Why not?
Pakistan is not our friend and it is no stretch of the imagination to think they are harboring our enemies there. Islamic birds of a feather are flocking together and playing us for fools.
I know what Marfan’s is. That would not explain his looking very ill back yrs ago.
Splitting time between Chitral and Kurram Agency..
First, this really isn't accurate. There has never been a tremendous amount of video of UBL. Secondly, and more importantly....when there was video of him, it was prior to us putting boots on the ground and hunting his sorry as$! UBL clearly became much more interested in his well being, staying alive than with promoting his new found status.
Also note, the video of him that came out shortly after 9-11 was not put out by him or AQ propaganda wing....but it was video that was recovered during a US SOF Op and then released to the public. Could there be other such videos recovered during Ops since (be it 2005, 2007, 2008) and simply not released to the public?
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