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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| US marines itching to hunt down Binny |
| 2004-11-29 |
| The army guy was scattering handfuls of Osama bin Laden leaflets from his Humvee as the heavily-armed convoy bumped through a mudbrick village on the way to the Pakistan border. He nurtured the unlikely hope that somebody with information would find them lying in the road. The leaflets, designed by a psychological operations team based at Fire Base Salerno, did not mention the $25-million reward but featured colour pictures of Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, his al-Qaeda deputy, and the one-eyed Mullah Omar looking like evil zombies from a horror film. The caption in Pushtun mocked them for drawing out a war that they could not win. "Nobody really thinks Bin Laden is here in Afghanistan," said the soldier, whose job is to make friends with Afghan villagers in the hope of finding useful intelligence. "But a lot of people go to and fro across the border. Just maybe somebody who knows something we want to know will pick up a leaflet." After six months in Afghanistan, Lima Company still hasn't been in a skirmish with the enemy, which is just over the Pakistan border - a border that they may not cross. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Binny isn't in Afghanistan or the 'Tribal Areas', he's resting his heels in Iran or Kashmir! |
| Posted by: smn 2004-11-29 2:52:59 PM |