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| Cell phone reveals bin Laden's Pak links |
| 2011-06-24 |
| The cellphone of Osama bin LadenÂ’s trusted courier, recovered in the raid that killed both of them last month, contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset of PakistanÂ’s intelligence agency, according to senior American officials. It appears that Bin Laden used the group, Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, as part of his support network inside the country. And it raised questions about whether the group and similar ones helped shelter and support Bin Laden on behalf of the ISI, in light of the fact that it had mentored Harakat and let it to operate in Pakistan for at least 20 years. The revelation may provide a crucial clue about Bin LadenÂ’s secret journey after he slipped away from American forces in the Tora Bora. It may help show how and why Bin Laden or his protectors chose Abbottabad. Harakat has deep roots in the area, and the group's network would have enhanced Bin LadenÂ’s ability to function in Pakistan. Its leaders have strong ties with both Al Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence, and they can roam freely because they are Pakistanis, something the foreigners in Al Qaeda cannot do. Even today, the groupÂ’s leader, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, one of Bin LadenÂ’s closest associates, lives untroubled by Pakistani authorities on the outskirts of Islamabad. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #4 My Starfish are less high tech, they mainly just sorta,well, ummmm.. suck the fluids out of the eye sockets, ears, and other available (LOLA!) orafishes. |
| Posted by: S 2011-06-24 17:59 |
| #3 "All right, guys, we've got the tracker/listening programs in place on those devices? Good -- let's do the same to all devices they contact, and all the ones that contact those... And all computers turned on in the vicinity of any such device until we've got relationships and locations mapped out. After that we can start giving the UAVs and Afghan Special Forces their targets -- they've been itching for a new project, and they've got all those newbies to train up to replace our guys when they're pulled out..." /The jihadis don't understand that djinns are much less fearsome than electronics wallahs starting a new project. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-24 17:56 |
| #2 Go go starfish! |
| Posted by: S 2011-06-24 17:31 |
| #1 Rig up a fax machine to call all the numbers back. About every five minutes. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-06-24 15:44 |