Afghan official says commanders let Osama escape
By Sayed Salahuddin / Reuters KABUL, Sept 14 - Osama bin Laden was provided safe passage to Pakistan in 2001 by Afghan commanders paid by al Qaeda and sympathetic to its cause, a senior Afghan official told Reuters on Wednesday. Lutfullah Mashal, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry spokesman, said commanders helped the ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM Oil wealth and oil power divide the Iraqi constitutional committee. Kurds and Shiites grapple with the future and whether they should have control of their own regions (a confederacy, of sorts) or if it should be centralized (a republic, of sorts). Civil war smells like this: ...
Musharraf hints bin Laden, al-Zawahari in Pakistani mountains
(Kyodo) _ President Pervez Musharraf strongly hinted Friday that al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian-born top deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are hiding in "mountains in Pakistan." Musharraf told a packed press conference that the U.S. interrogation of senior al-Qaida member Abu Farraj al-Libbi had revealed that the terrorist network's ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM An Indiana Army National Guard recruiter is charged with raping (six times) a 21 year old soldier. The Army's Reserve Officer Training Corps holds camp for 4,500 ROTC students from across the country.Lying on the ground Friday, Spahr stared down the barrel of his rifle to ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM The leader of the American unit that has suffered the highest number of war casualties in Iraq is facing a fresh battle - to clear his name after being relieved of his command and told his promotion was being blocked. Last Throes: Eight car bombs, one ...
U.S. Rockets Reportedly Kill 5 Pakistanis
American military says troops were pursuing guerrillas who attacked in Afghanistan, but does not confirm fatalities across the border. By Zulfiqar Ali and Paul Watson / Los Angeles Times PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A battle between U.S. forces and militants in eastern Afghanistan spilled across the border into Pakistan during the ...
Security entourage holds clues in hunt for bin Laden
In an interview, Lt. Gen. Safdar Hussain, a top Pakistani commander, talks of the hunt on Pakistan's northwestern border. By Owais Tohid / Christian Science Monitor PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN - After three years of poking around caves, raiding compounds, and getting the slip from motorbike mullahs, the intelligence communities chasing Osama ...
U.S., Pakistan admit bin Laden trail is cold
Pakistan's leader says forces once were close to al-Qaida chief NBC News LONDON - Pakistani and American officials said Tuesday the hunt for top al-Qaida and Taliban leaders would continue, but acknowledged the trail was cold.Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said his forces believed they had nearly hunted down Osama bin ...
Pakistan 'lost' Bin Laden trail
BBC Pakistani forces had their best chance of capturing Osama Bin Laden last year, but they lost the trail, President Pervez Musharraf has told the BBC. Gen Musharraf said the intelligence services had their strongest indication about the al-Qaeda leader's whereabouts eight to 10 months ago. He said the "dragnet ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM America suffers worst Iraq attack yet. More pictures here. New allegations of serious mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, some after the Abu Ghraib scandal. A lost leg and a demolished taxi: $10,000. Three male family members dead, $9,700. Making things right at Camp Victory: Priceless. Birds of ...
Musharraf: Bin Laden's Location Is Unknown
By Robin Wright and Peter Baker / Washington Post Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that the search for Osama bin Laden has gone completely cold, with no recent intelligence indicating where he and his top lieutenants are hiding. More than three years after al Qaeda's attacks on the World ...
Bush Defends Pakistan's Hunt for Bin Laden
By Jennifer Loven / Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush on Saturday defended Pakistan's cooperation in the hunt for Osama bin Laden despite the inability of U.S. and Pakistani troops to find the al-Qaida leader who, Bush once declared, was wanted dead or alive. The trail has gone cold in ...
Bush Mum on Pakistan's Hunt for Bin Laden
By Jennifer Loven / Associated Press President Bush offered no criticism Saturday of Pakistan's role in the still-unsuccessful hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, even though Pakistan's army is pulling out of one area where the terrorist mastermind has believed to hide. After an Oval Office meeting with Pakistan's ...
DEEP IN THE HEART OF WAZIRISTAN
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Toronto Star PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The Pakistan army said today it will withdraw hundreds of troops from a tense tribal region near Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden and his top deputy were believed to be hiding. The withdrawals from the South Waziristan area come after several military operations by thousands ...
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