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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (18602)	3/10/2003 1:35:36 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Link to news story that Bin Ladin's sons were not captured: This will prove my point as stated earlier against your statement that they were captured. msnbc.com Hunting in the Barren Hills As investigators sift evidence from a major arrest, hopes of nabbing bin Laden intensify By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball NEWSWEEK March 17 issue — Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, a stark, hilly stretch of dirt and desert along the untamed border with Afghanistan, is a well-worn route for bandits and drug smugglers. Day and night, they make their way over the rough terrain on camelback, or rattle over the dirt trails in pickup trucks. Few people pay the travelers much mind. But late last week the province was alive with tantalizing reports that a well-known visitor was among those passing through. Local officials told reporters that a large caravan of men had been spotted in the region, and it was believed that Osama bin Laden was with them. BY FRIDAY MORNING, word had spread that Pakistani soldiers and U.S. intelligence agents were hot on bin Laden’s trail, hovering over the caravan in helicopters and photographing the group from surveillance planes equipped with night-vision cameras. The story took on greater urgency when Baluchistan’s Home minister, Sanaullah Zahri, announced that two of bin Laden’s sons had already been captured in Afghanistan. The reports seemed credible enough. For days, there had been leaks that raids on the hideouts of recently arrested Qaeda higher-ups, including 9-11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, had yielded clues to bin Laden’s whereabouts. TV news jumped on the story, all but eclipsing coverage of the U.N. inspectors’ umpteenth report on Iraq. But by Friday afternoon, the Pakistanis were denying the whole thing, and U.S. officials said neither bin Laden nor his sons were directly in their sights. U.S. planes have dropped leaflets over Pakistan offering a $25 million reward for information on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts Last week’s false flurry of excitement showed just how high hopes are that bin Laden’s days on the run may be numbered. For months, most U.S. officials have been convinced that bin Laden was hiding out in northwest Pakistan along the Afghan border. The search in that region intensified last week, as Pakistani agents—backed up by the CIA—launched a series of patrols designed to flush out bin Laden. U.S. aircraft dropped leaflets reminding the locals of the $25 million bounty on bin Laden’s head. (The leaflets show stacks of $20 bills picturing bin Laden behind bars.) Some Pakistani sources believe bin Laden and some of his followers may try to head to ports to the south in an effort to flee by ship, which may explain the stories that the terrorist master—mind was passing through Baluchistan.