Osama Bin Laden (Location Parts Unknown)From Times Online:
Osama bin Laden and the top Al-Qaeda leadership are not in Pakistan, making US missile attacks against them futile, according to the country’s interior minister.
“If Osama was in Pakistan we would know, with all the thousands of troops we have sent into the tribal areas in recent months,” Rehman Malik told The Sunday Times. “If he and all these four or five top people were in our area they would have been caught, the way we are searching.”
He added: “According to our information Osama is in Afghanistan, probably Kunar, as most of the activities against Pakistan are being directed from Kunar.”
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My Comment: It is interesting to read Pakistani complaints on U.S./NATO operations on the Afghan side of the border, and their inability to seal the border as they continue their operations against Taliban militants on the Pakistan side of the border.
As for Osama Bin Laden, he is lying very low, with only a few of his loyal followers probably knowing where he is. Like how Saddam Hussein had hid himself in Iraq, Bin Laden is in a very isolated place with few creature comforts. But unlike Saddam Hussein, he does not have U.S. special forces on the ground in his vicinity at all times of the day and Pakistani forces have bigger fish to fry than Osama Bin Laden.
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