We recently reported that according to the (U.K.) Sunday Express, Osama bin-Laden?s hiding place, in the mountains bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, is being monitored by U.S. satellites. Now Yossi Melman writes in the Haaretz Daily that Iran’s official IRNA news agency says bin-Laden has been captured.
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In ABC News exclusive, Brian Ross writes that the FBI made secret plans to capture Osama bin Laden five years ago. Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABCNEWS consultant, says they had a plan to fly a plane in and attack a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was living in 1998 ? three years before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but the plan was killed by then-Attorney General Janet Reno.
“They came to the decision that this plan was probably too dangerous, that the loss of life on the ground would have been significant,” Cloonan says. “There was concern that people around the bin-Laden compound would be killed.”
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A new audio message said to be from Osama bin-Laden was broadcast on the Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera earlier this week. Many messages from bin-Laden have been broadcast before, but earlier messages haven?t referred to recent events, giving the impression they were recorded before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and released in order to make us believe that bin-Laden is still alive (meaning he?s probably dead). But this message is different: it refers to recent events, such as the attack on the French tanker in Yemen on October 6, the terrorist attacks in Bali on October 12, and the Moscow theater siege on October 23. Is this really Osama?s voice?
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It?s known that Osama bin-Laden has a serious case of kidneydisease and has had dialysis machines shipped to his varioushideouts. Now in his article ?Dust Bin? in the June 29, 2002issue of the English magazine ?The Spectator,? Mark Steyn, aBrit living in New Hampshire, says Osama is dead but it?sbetter for both sides to pretend he?s alive.
Pakistan television regularly releases videos of bin-Laden,but none of them have any information that gives a clueabout the date they were taken. Al-Qaeda officials makeannouncements, like the one by Suleiman Abu Ghaith, whosaid, ??Sheikh Osama bin Laden …is in good and prosperoushealth and all what is being rumored about his illness andinjury in Tora Bora has no truth.?
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