| The "source" of a report which made a buzz around the world about the arrest of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, turned out to be a journalist based in the northern city of Peshawar, Pakistani authorities announced Sunday, February 29. Pakistani officials told Islamonline.net that a brief investigation was launched to know the facts about the report and the sources it quoted. They later found out that the sources quoted by the Iranian radio was a Peshawar-based Pakistani journalist who works for the English daily The Nation. The radio interviewed the reporter a day earlier about the situation in the tribal areas following a military operation. He apparently expressed his opinion that Bin Laden could have been arrested because he detected some VIP movement in his area. The authorities have concluded that the radio actually misquoted the reporter and made a big story out of it. |