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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3012)	2/25/2004 8:57:07 AM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9018

Nearing to declare another victory after capturing Saddam? -------------------------------- Time Is Running Out for Osama, U.S. Military Says Wed February 25, 2004 07:18 AM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Mike Collett-White KABUL (Reuters) - Time is running out for Osama bin Laden, the U.S. military said Wednesday, as American and Pakistani forces step up operations against al Qaeda and Taliban militants along the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. In the latest statement of growing confidence that al Qaeda's mastermind and other senior militant figures will be captured or killed soon, the U.S. military in Afghanistan spoke of "renewed urgency" in hunting down key terror figures. "If we knew where Osama bin Laden was we'd already have him," Lieutenant Colonel Matt Beevers told reporters in Kabul, referring to recent reports that the world's most wanted man had been located on Pakistan's side of the border. But he added: "We feel that really the sands in this guy's hourglass ... are running out." Beevers said the same applied to two other wanted figures; the ousted Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and renegade warlord and former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. "We remain committed and reaffirmed in our effort to track these guys down and get them." U.S. WELCOMES PAKISTAN OPERATIONS Beevers welcomed an operation by Pakistani forces in tribal areas that border Afghanistan Tuesday during which 25 people were detained. There were conflicting views on reports in Pakistan that Khaled al-Zawahri, son of al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahri, had been caught in the last two to three days and taken to the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan north of Kabul. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan called the reports "wild speculation," adding: "We have no information yet." A Pakistani intelligence source said Wednesday all of those held were locals apart from three women who had Kazakh passports. He said five detainees had been released. Continued ... 1\| 2 Next reuters.com