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| Terror Networks |
| We have some Binny bodyguards in custody... |
| 2002-07-28 |
| Two senior U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday that there are growing signs that suggest Osama bin Laden is dead. The two officials - one from the FBI, the other from the CIA, both speaking on the condition of anonymity - stressed that neither knew of any concrete evidence. But they said several indications, some of which they would not discuss, seem to point to the likelihood of bin Laden's death. The officials disclosed for the first time, for example, that U.S. forces captured members of bin Laden's personal security force. Those members are among the prisoners being held as "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and have been interrogated. "Some of the people we know were involved in that security force we know have been captured," the FBI official said. "One could - as one example - conclude that if his security was captured, there is a possibility that he has been killed." Yeah, but I wouldn't call that conclusive. Hopeful, but not conclusive... Agents have gleaned some information from the members of the security detail, the FBI official said, even though those members, along with most of the prisoners in Cuba, are skilled in counter-interrogation techniques. None of the security force members is an Afghan. "Bin Laden didn't really trust the Afghanis," the FBI official said. "When it came to his personal security force, they were all Arabs." Oh, doesn't that come as a surprise? Nobody trusts Afghans, not even Afghans... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |