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2006-02-09 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2006-02-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's not clear form the article, but their routing requires they be smuggled from Iran by boat.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-02-09 01:23|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-02-09 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It's not clear form the article, but their routing requires they be smuggled from Iran by boat.
It's just a short trip across the Straits of Hormuz from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Muscat, Oman. I just wonder how they get from the Iran/Pakistan border to Bandar Abbas - possibly by bus, provided by the Iranian government? Pakistanis seem to be the nationality of choice for stirring up trouble in other people's countries.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-02-09 10:01|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-02-09 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the route I think Bin Laden and others may have used. UBL's father was a dockworker in Yemen before making his construction business fortune, and his vacations spent on the Syrian beach. Also reportedly had investments in his own ships, so he is not exclusively the desert cave dweller he portrays himself as. Crossing into the Arabian desert from there unnoticed is relatively easy, too.

Posted by Danielle 2006-02-09 10:42|| 2006-02-09 10:42|| Front Page Top

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