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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (454554)	9/8/2003 7:49:28 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

OK genius, how many troops do we have in Pakistan? If you answered almost none, then you are correct. If Time magazine and Newsweek magazine can find bin Laden in Pakistan, then why can't the US Government? Could it be: thestatesman.net With the second anniversary of 9/11 close at hand, its inspiration and main perpetrator remains at large. Official sources are silent on Osama bin Laden, and one has to fall back on investigative reports from reputed media sources to surmise why the resources of the world’s greatest superpower are unable to track down one lone man. An interesting pattern emerges. According to investigative author Gerald Posner, whose new book on the subject will be excerpted by Time magazine, interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, top-ranking member of Al Qaeda, captured in March 2002, reveals curious information. To place him under stress he was moved to a fake Saudi interrogation chamber to which, however, his reaction was not fear but relief as he reeled off the telephone numbers of a Saudi prince who, he thought, would get him off. He also named two other Saudi princes as well as Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, a senior officer in the Pakistani air force. Posner thinks bin Laden was bankrolled by Riyadh and otherwise helped by Islamabad through much of the 1990s, the payoff for Riyadh being that he would not foment trouble within Saudi Arabia, while Islamabad must have factored in the assistance he was providing to the Taliban and perhaps the jehad in Kashmir. Newsweek has reported that bin Laden could now be in Afghanistan’s remote Kunar province, which is on the border with Pakistan and where more than a thousand Arabs have settled. So why don’t American special forces scour the area or, for that matter, Pakistan’s northern tribal territories? According to an inquiry by The Guardian, General Musharraf has a deal with the Americans whereby seizing bin Laden has been deferred as it might trigger civil unrest in Pakistan. For all one knows, the fine tuning may be to capture or kill bin Laden just before President Bush comes up for re-election in 2004. Whatever the murky goings-on, it is clear that Washington is letting Afghanistan slide into anarchy, and bin Laden is around to seize the opportunities offered. Too clever by half ideas may get Washington into deeper trouble than it is already. According to Taliban officials in Pakistan and Afghanistan, bin Laden’s men are already in possession of biological weapons whose effects are said to be “unbelievable”. They are thinking of a way to use them. Bush might, therefore, want to consider a new scenario — what if there is a second catastrophic attack, just before he comes up for re-election in 2004? Two can play this too clever by half game! Orca