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2005-10-06 Afghanistan/South Asia

Hakeemi sez Omar's using a satellite phone

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-06 00:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 remains in contact with senior aides by satellite phone

Bullshit. Would've been vapor by now. Chechens learned quickly NOT to use satellite phones when bombs started falling on their heads almost immediately after such use.

Posted by Rafael 2005-10-06 00:55|| 2005-10-06 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 VERY INTERESTING.

Someone correct me, but Hakeemi wasn't supposed to be in Balochistan... he was always suspected of being somewhere in NWFP, or closer to the Hindu Kush mountain range in NE Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan.

I've been thinking for a while that Balochistan is the logical place for a lot of these fugitives to be.

You go North, and you're in Afghanistan.

You go West, and you're in Iran.

Go NE, and you're in Waziristan which isn't well-controlled and further NE you get into the NWFP.

Go East, and you can reach Pakistan.

To the south is the Indian Ocean, which is another line of communication.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-10-06 01:37|| 2005-10-06 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 And you go up and you are in the moon. I am not saying you are wrong but you let out some very important factors: first the fact Balochistan borders at lot of countries is only a factor. Another one is the easyness of going there: only a road bordered by unpassable ground or lots of them and easy to travel off-road? Attitude of the authorities and of the Balochss: from a (short) journey around their websites I got the impression that they were far less prone to adopt salafist and taliban-like doctrines than Pashtoons (could be wrong)

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-10-06 09:13|| 2005-10-06 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree Balochistan is logical. A Time reporter on the trail of Bin Laden said long ago he thought he had teamed up with these nomadic tribes, as they must harbor anyone who asks, and deny everything. The camel jockeys follow the ancient smuggling routes into Iran and even into Saudi Arabia in difficult terrain that Bin Laden favors. Same reporter that did a piece on AQ Khan, with more information than the government seemed to have.

Posted by Danielle 2005-10-06 16:33|| 2005-10-06 16:33|| Front Page Top

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