Bin Laden sent fax, official says

[dArKeR]

STILL HIDING: According to an Afghan official, bin Laden has been in contact with a former Taliban leader and requested an urgent meeting to try to find him a safe house

AFP AND REUTERS , KABUL
Sunday, Mar 07, 2004,Page 5

Fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden recently escaped a sweep by Pakistani troops hunting for Taliban fighters and is hiding near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, an Afghan official said yesterday.

Haji Abdullah, head of the Pashir Wa Agam district, south of the Afghan town of Jalalabad, said he had recently spoken to a former leader of the ousted Taliban regime who said bin Laden had made an appeal for a safe house.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/03/07/2003101490

[LiberalFighter]

1. How long??

How long has bin Laden been hiding near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border? And they still haven't found him?

[mobuto]

4. Well, we still haven't gone into Pakistan

its been two-and-a-half years since 9/11, and we've known all along Al Qaeda is big in the border-regions of Pakistan, and yet we still haven't gotten the "permission" of Musharaff to go after them there.

This is how Bush will lose - he's just far too weak on National Security.

[mobuto]

2. All of my faxes

come from deposed West African dictators who need my bank account number to get $50,000,000 (FIFTY MILLION US$) out of frozen Swiss accounts. In return, I'm promised 20%.

Osama bin Laden's so far offered me nothing.

I'll go with Sani Abacha's nephew, thank you.

[still_one]

6. I thought it was just me

who received email from West African dictators

[maxanne]

3. he has a fax machine

in his cave? Or the morgue?

[Newsjock]

5. They have a fax machine at poolside in Crawford?

"Condi! Bring me another margarita!"
"Bring me another margarita what?"
"Bring me another margarita, pleeeeease."
"Yes, Mr. bin Laden, right away sir."

[bemildred]

7. So what, they wanted to warn him that they knew what he was up to?

Let's put an ad in the New York Times.
What crap.

[okieinpain]

8. I thought bin laden lived in caves, now they are saying that he is

fond of indoor plumbing.

[xchrom]

9. from the department of

disinformation, misinformation, and misunderestimated.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. So we have a 6'+ tall Arab

who uses a donkey for transportation, dragging a kidney dialysis machine around and sends faxes from a cave and we can't find this guy? Just follow that really long power cord and I bet you'll find him.

[TexasProgresive]

11. FAX is next to his dialysis machine

and both are plugged in to his donkey powered generator.

[shance]

12. You know, he should get an admin for those tasks.......

I think its money well spent, especially if you have other priorities like bombing cities and building terrorist cells.

I think its important that we really invest in enhancing our time management skills which are so important in utilizing our time much more wisely.

[democracy eh]

13. Osama is at Kinko's!

The CIA needs to send the Predator spy planes there ASAP