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Osama fled to Peshawar after Tora Bora bombing
Osama Bin Laden fled to Peshawar in December 2001 after surviving a massive US military assault on his Tora Bora base in Afghanistan, according to US intelligence and law-enforcement sources. A report in the Washington Times on Tuesday said Bin Laden reportedly left to meet Mulla Omar near Kandahar, Afghanistan, and later was believed to have moved into Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.
| That's what makes me take this report with a bit more than a grain of salt, assuming he's not worm food... |
âBin Laden is a hero to many of the autonomous tribes that live along the Pakistan-Afghan border and who support the hard-line vision of Islam promoted by the Al Qaeda founder, US intelligence officials say. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al Qaedaâs operations chief, who was arrested on March 1 this year in Rawalpindi, reportedly gave conflicting information to Pakistanâs ISI, the CIA and the FBI as to whether Bin Laden was alive, and whether he had met him after the September 11 attacks.
| Leading me to believe Binny's titzup... |
The report recalled, âPakistani intelligence officials, in an unusual briefing for foreign journalists at the time, said Shaikh Mohammed acknowledged during three days of interrogation at a safe-house after his arrest that he met Bin Laden in December 2002, though he did not say where. US and Pakistani officials retrieved numerous secret Al Qaeda documents and other information during Shaikh Mohammedâs interrogation. Included was a laptop computer used by Shaikh Mohammed that contained the names of at least a dozen safe houses located along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border used by Bin Laden and his supporters, authorities said.â
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-12-17 |
