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Teamblue
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Iranian Radio Reports Bin Laden Captured
11 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state radio, quoting an unnamed source, said Saturday that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) was captured in Pakistan "a long time ago." A Pakistan army spokesman denied he was captured.
The report said that U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's visit to the region this week was in connection with the arrest.
The state radio said a reporter for its Pushtun service in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar "confirmed the news" that bin Laden had been captured in a tribal region in Pakistan. He said the news was from "a very reliable source in Peshawar, Pakistan," but the source was not identified.
Pakistani Army spokesman Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press that the report is completely untrue. "That information is wrong," he said.
A Pakistani military operation has been under way in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan (news - web sites) and a Pakistani official said previously that members of al-Qaida are being sought there, although bin laden was not a specific target.
Iranian state radio quoted its reporter as saying the arrest happened a long time ago.
"Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election," he said.
Homayoun Jarir, son-in-law of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said he could not confirm the report.
Shamim Shahed, the bureau chief for "The Nation," an English-language newspaper in Peshawar, was cited by the director of IRNA's Pashtun radio service as the source of the bin Laden report.
But Shahed denied in an AP interview ever telling the Iranian news service that bin Laden had been captured.
"I never said this, but I have for the last year been saying that he is not far away. He is within their (the Americans) reach, and they can declare him arrested anytime," Shahed said. He gave no evidence to back up that claim.
Justice through Valor
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war" Psalm 144
Iranian Radio Reports Bin Laden Captured
11 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's state radio, quoting an unnamed source, said Saturday that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) was captured in Pakistan "a long time ago." A Pakistan army spokesman denied he was captured.
The report said that U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's visit to the region this week was in connection with the arrest.
The state radio said a reporter for its Pushtun service in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar "confirmed the news" that bin Laden had been captured in a tribal region in Pakistan. He said the news was from "a very reliable source in Peshawar, Pakistan," but the source was not identified.
Pakistani Army spokesman Gen. Shaukat Sultan told The Associated Press that the report is completely untrue. "That information is wrong," he said.
A Pakistani military operation has been under way in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan (news - web sites) and a Pakistani official said previously that members of al-Qaida are being sought there, although bin laden was not a specific target.
Iranian state radio quoted its reporter as saying the arrest happened a long time ago.
"Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election," he said.
Homayoun Jarir, son-in-law of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said he could not confirm the report.
Shamim Shahed, the bureau chief for "The Nation," an English-language newspaper in Peshawar, was cited by the director of IRNA's Pashtun radio service as the source of the bin Laden report.
But Shahed denied in an AP interview ever telling the Iranian news service that bin Laden had been captured.
"I never said this, but I have for the last year been saying that he is not far away. He is within their (the Americans) reach, and they can declare him arrested anytime," Shahed said. He gave no evidence to back up that claim.
Justice through Valor
"Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war" Psalm 144
Comments
Kids that fish, hunt and trap have never mugged any old ladies!
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But the Law runs true, O little son!
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PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER
If Bin Laden is not captured, then it is high time that he is, to get as discussed above.
And, by the way, my President, GW, will beat the living ____ out of Kerry in November with or without Bin Laden.[:)]
It must be right, or we wouldn't do it this way!
U.S. Denies Report of Bin Laden's Capture
1 hour, 13 minutes ago
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran - Pentagon (news - web sites) and Pakistani officials on Saturday denied an Iranian state radio report that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) was captured in Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan (news - web sites) "a long time ago."
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The claim came at a time when Pakistan's army was hunting al-Qaida suspects in a remote tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, believed to be a possible hiding place for the al-Qaida leader. The report was carried by Iran radio's external Pashtun service, which is designed for listeners in Afghanistan and Pakistan where the language is widely spoken.
Iran state radio's main news channel - the Farsi-language service for Iranian listeners - did not carry the bin Laden report. Iran state television also did not carry the report.
The director of Iran radio's Pashtun service, Asheq Hossein, said he had two sources for the report. The radio quoted its reporter as saying bin Laden had been in custody for a period of time, but a U.S. announcement of the capture was being withheld by President Bush (news - web sites) until closer to the November election.
"Osama bin Laden has been arrested a long time ago, but Bush is intending to use it for propaganda maneuvering in the presidential election," he said.
There have been reports that military forces believed they had identified bin Laden's general location and had him encircled, but Pakistani officials have denied any specific knowledge of bin Laden's whereabouts.
The state radio report, quoting an unnamed source, said U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's visit to the region this week was in connection with the arrest.
Larry Di Rita, the chief Pentagon spokesman who traveled with Rumsfeld this week to Afghanistan, denied the report. "I don't have any reason to think it's true," he said Saturday.
Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, also said he had no information to suggest bin Laden had been caught.
"Things are going well, and we believe we will eventually catch all the leaders of al-Qaida, but I know nothing of that report," he said.
Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed denied the reported capture, saying it was "baseless news."
"We have neither arrested Osama nor we have any information about him," Ahmed told The Associated Press.
Pakistani Army spokesman Gen. Shaukat Sultan also told The Associated Press that the report was not true. "That information is wrong," he said.
A Pakistani official said previously that members of al-Qaida are being sought in the border region, although bin laden was not a specific target.
Separately, Pakistani forces killed 11 people in an exchange of fire Saturday after a minibus failed to stop at a roadblock in a tribal region where the ongoing anti-terrorism operations have been taking place, an army spokesman told the AP. The shooting occurred a day after armed men and soldiers exchanged fire at a military compound in the region.
Speaking to the AP in Tehran, Hossein identified one of the sources for the bin Laden report as Shamim Shahed, editor of the English-language Pakistani newspaper The Nation in Peshawar. Hossein said Shahed told him Friday night that bin Laden was arrested "a long time ago."
But Shahed, who is The Nation's Peshawar bureau chief and not its editor, denied telling Iranian radio that bin Laden had been captured.
"I never said this," Shahed said in a telephone interview with the AP's Islamabad bureau. "But I have for the last year been saying that he is not far away. He is within their (the Americans') reach, and they can declare him arrested any time."
Hossein said he had a second source for his report that bin Laden had been captured, but he declined to identify him except to say he was "a man with close links to intelligence services and Afghan tribal leaders."
The Iranian news agency IRNA was first to report the capture of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites). IRNA also carried the state radio report about bin Laden's capture and said it had contacted a radio announcer at the Pashtun service who confirmed the news.
Lil' Stinker's Opinion
Given how Cheney operates, this wouldn't surprise me.
Please elaborate Chimpster, how does VP Cheney "operate"?
Ted Kennedy's breath has killed more people than my car.
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Greg
Former
USMC
ANGLICO
Cheney is a very canny politician. Who else could dodge the draft with FIVE deferrals and still come out smelling like a military man? Who else could advocate ending UN sanctions against Saddam Hussein and still come out looking like one of Saddam's biggest detractors?
So, supposing this story is true, what would be better for Bush's re-election chances than to trot Bin Laden out in chains around, let's say, late August or September? All of a sudden people forget that Bush is the man who presided over the largest loss in American jobs since the Depression and start thinking of him as the man who brought Bin Laden in.
Cheney's not stupid. Military success abroad has always helped distract people's attention away from problems at home. And if it means delaying Bin Laden's capture for a few months, hey, who cares? If another 9-11 happens in the meantime, he's safely sequestered away in a bomb-proof hideout. And if people start asking questions, the inquiry won't produce results until AFTER the election.