Post by ForeverBigBlue on Jun 2, 2002 6:39:04 GMT -5
In the "India or Pakistan" thread, I had stated I felt we should go with Pakistan if absolutely forced since they had been one of our more vocal "supporters" after the events of 9/11. However, after catching this article today, I may retract that statement. Now I trust NO ONE!
Al Qaeda's New Threat:
June 10 issue — It wasn’t a small funeral. It wasn’t even especially secretive or rushed, considering that the world’s mightiest military was hunting many of those who attended. On a recent spring day in Pakistan, top Taliban officials held a kind of reunion, al fresco. Chatting amiably in the middle of the Jalozai Afghan refugee camp about 12 miles outside Peshawar were some of Osama bin Laden’s chief protectors: the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, Abdul Rahman Zaid, and a top Defense Ministry official, Gen. Jalil Yousafzai, among others. They had gathered to honor an old Soviet-era “mujahed” who had died of TB in the camp. In a speech witnessed by a NEWSWEEK reporter, Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist Samia al-Haq eulogized the departed and tartly noted the presence of an “envoy” of the government of Pakistan. (The intelligence official later let the Taliban officials leave, unmolested.) Interviewed afterward about bin Laden’s whereabouts, ex-Taliban Defense official Mualvi Agha Jan replied defiantly, “Osama is a true patriot, and despite their all-out efforts, the Americans are unable to catch him and never will be able to.”
For the complete story, go here.
Al Qaeda's New Threat:
June 10 issue — It wasn’t a small funeral. It wasn’t even especially secretive or rushed, considering that the world’s mightiest military was hunting many of those who attended. On a recent spring day in Pakistan, top Taliban officials held a kind of reunion, al fresco. Chatting amiably in the middle of the Jalozai Afghan refugee camp about 12 miles outside Peshawar were some of Osama bin Laden’s chief protectors: the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, Abdul Rahman Zaid, and a top Defense Ministry official, Gen. Jalil Yousafzai, among others. They had gathered to honor an old Soviet-era “mujahed” who had died of TB in the camp. In a speech witnessed by a NEWSWEEK reporter, Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist Samia al-Haq eulogized the departed and tartly noted the presence of an “envoy” of the government of Pakistan. (The intelligence official later let the Taliban officials leave, unmolested.) Interviewed afterward about bin Laden’s whereabouts, ex-Taliban Defense official Mualvi Agha Jan replied defiantly, “Osama is a true patriot, and despite their all-out efforts, the Americans are unable to catch him and never will be able to.”
For the complete story, go here.
