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To: BW who wrote (9614)	11/21/2002 3:27:49 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48461

Might give them all the more reason to lash out. I always try to look at both sides of an issue... Which leads me to my next point, insurance. Right now is a good time to look at and maybe even open some puts in Jan QQQ's..They are cheap. Just in case we get something out of left field.

To: BW who wrote (9614)	1/21/2003 10:10:47 AM
From: xcr600	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48461

Satellite phone ruse might have allowed Bin Laden to escape Peter Finn Washington Post Published 01/21/2003 RABAT, MOROCCO -- With U.S. forces closing in on him during the battle of Tora Bora in late 2001, Osama bin Laden employed a simple feint against sophisticated U.S. spy technology to vanish into the mountains that led to Pakistan, according to senior Moroccan officials. A Moroccan who was one of Bin Laden's longtime bodyguards took possession of the Al-Qaida leader's satellite phone on the assumption that U.S. intelligence agencies were monitoring it to get a fix on their position, said the officials, who have interviewed the bodyguard, Abdallah Tabarak. Tabarak moved away from Bin Laden and his entourage as they fled; he continued to use the phone in an effort to divert the Americans and allow Bin Laden to escape. Tabarak was captured at Tora Bora in possession of the phone, officials said. "He agreed to be captured or die," a Moroccan official said. "That's the level of his fanaticism for bin Laden. It wasn't a lot of time, but it was enough. There is a saying: 'Where there is a frog, the serpent is not far away.' " More than a year later, Tabarak, 43, has established himself as the leader of the more than 600 suspected Al-Qaida and Taliban members being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to senior officials in Rabat who have visited the military compound twice to interview Moroccan citizens. Tabarak's authority there "comes from his proximity to Bin Laden, because of the confidence Osama bin Laden had in him," said a Moroccan intelligence officer, noting that the former bodyguard outranks other senior prisoners including former leading officials in the Taliban administration. "He has charisma, and all the combatants at Guantanamo are deferential to him." Tabarak is respected even more because he helped Bin Laden escape, the official said. The ploy involving the satellite phone is widely known and celebrated among the prisoners at the military prison, now called Camp Delta. In the Tora Bora battle, U.S. B-52 bombers and attack helicopters, together with pro-Western Afghans and U.S. special forces, assaulted the high-altitude cave complexes where Al-Qaida fighters had fled in November 2001. Some military analysts argue that by relying heavily on Afghan allies in the battle, U.S. forces missed one of their best opportunities to capture Bin Laden. Tabarak's dedication to his cause has continued at Guantanamo Bay, where he has steadfastly refused to cooperate with the U.S. interrogators, insisting as he did at the time of his capture that he is a textile trader who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. startribune.com