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| Pakistan, U.S. deny arrest of bin Laden |
| 2003-03-13 |
| Claims by a Pakistani politician that Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden had been captured were immediately denied by Islamabad as "baseless." The U.S. government also denied the report. Washington said it had no information to substantiate the claim by Agha Murtaza Poya, vice-chairman of Pakistani Awami Tehreek political party, who told Iranian Radio, monitored by the BBC, that "reliable sources" had informed him bin Laden had been arrested by "those who have been chasing him." Poya did not identify the source nor indicate where bin Laden had been captured and by whom but said his sources "have never given me wrong information". I confess. I have him in my basement... "According to my source the U.S. will announce Osama bin Laden's capture at a time coinciding with the planned attack on Iraq," the politician said. Should be any time now... Pakistan's Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat dismissed the claim as unfounded. "It is absolutely baseless, this is absolutely unfounded" the minister told Gulf News. "Agha's a nut..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |