Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden might have escaped from Pakistan through Karachi or Gwadar. Sources have told Daily Times that US and Pakistani intelligence agencies were investigating a suspect believed to be Bin Laden who travelled from Dera Ismail Khan to Karachi in a truck. âHe might have escaped on a private ferry through Karachi or Gwadar port,â the sources said.
| I'd guess this is a rumor, or that it was some tall guy with a honkin' pair of lips on him. On the other hand, if we did get him moving, we should be able to track him. But he probably knows that, assuming he's not a dried layer of dust at Tora Bora. |
âInvestigations are also underway about his destination. There are equal chances that either he left Pakistan or entered Balochistan. He could have moved into Afghanistan through Balochistan,â the sources added. Sources said that US intelligence received reports some months ago that Bin Laden was staying in Dera Ismail Khan. They said a tall and slim man along with two men with small beards travelled by truck to Karachi. The sources said Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri lived in Shawal in North Waziristan after they escaped from Afghanistan. Shawal is not very far from Dera Ismail Khan. âIntelligence agencies had proof that Osama was in Shawal till June 2003,â the sources said.
| That was while they were denying he was in Pakistan? |
âThe Osama and Al-Zawahiri videotapes, which were released by Al-Jazeera channel, were also shot in Shawal,â the sources said. The North West Frontier Province governor banned weapons in Shawal in August 2003. Bin Laden left the valley and was reportedly seen in the Pakistani-Afghan border area in the mid-2003, the sources said. |