Bin Laden Not Believed in Afghanistan

[Rose Siding]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar are not believed to be in Afghanistan anymore, the U.S. ambassador said Thursday, raising fresh questions as to the whereabouts of the elusive terror mastermind.

Zalmay Khalilzad, tapped by President Bush to be the next U.S. envoy to Iraq, did not reveal where the two might be hiding or whether his comment was based on new intelligence.

"Mullah Omar is not in Afghanistan. I do not believe that Osama is in Afghanistan," Khalilzad said. His comments at a news conference in Kabul came a day after a purported Taliban commander said the pair were alive and well.
...
Asked about bin Laden's whereabouts at a briefing Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said: "Who knows? ... I think there are other people who believe that (bin Laden is not in Afghanistan.) But we've talked a lot about this. When we've got him, we've got him."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061600323.html

[icymist]

1. He's not in Iraq, either! n/t

[Atman]

2. Gosh! Could he be in

IRAN?

[True_Blue]

7. Maybe..

Venezuela....:think:

[merwin]

14. I think he's relaxing in Jamaica, personally.

[KnightoftheRepublic]

3. Holy Crap!

Do they even care where he is??? Oh. Right.

[True_Blue]

16. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[NYC Liberal]

4. It took them THIS long to figure this out?

Did they really think bin Laden was gonna stick around for the US's invasion? He ain't that stupid. (Although we probably wouldn't have found him if was walking around outside the WH, what with the amount of attention being paid to him right now.)

[dbeach]

5. Where is Waldo???

billions spent cuz waldo bin bush ..oops I mean bin laden had a tantrum

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/041203metwithbinladen.html
Bush Senior Met With Bin Laden's Brother on 9/11

Paul Joseph Watson

Comment: Despite studying September 11 for two years solid, one fact I only just discovered is that George W. Bush's father was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, on the morning of 9/11. They were on Carlyle Group business just a few miles from where hijackers supposedly acting on behalf of Osama bin Laden would fly a plane into the Pentagon.

Recall that the chief financier of the so-called hijackers, Pakistan's Chief Spy General Mahmoud Ahmad, was meeting with Bush administration officials the week before 9/11. He also met with Bob Graham and Porter Goss on the morning of the attacks, who would later go on to head the first 9/11 investigative committee.

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/new_revelations_on_911

The Bush senior/bin Laden meeting was reported on by CBC. See http://www.propagandamatrix.com/021103fifthestate.html

This was also reported by the London Observer. See the last paragraph at http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,738196,00.html

"On 11 September, while Al-Qaeda's planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Carlyle Group hosted a conference at a Washington hotel. Among the guests of honour was a valued investor: Shafig bin Laden, brother to Osama."

vilage in Texas is reporting a missing idiot

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Bush not believed in America.

[NYC Liberal]

9. More like: Bush not believed to be in right mind (n/t)

[jobycom]

18. Stole my words exactly!! Great post! nt.

[dbeach]

8. repost bout waldo bin bush..I mean bin laden

Where is Waldo?

300 billion on GWOT BUT Waldo the soul bro of bushco is still MIA.

I smell a scaredy cat video coming and another roverian distraction cuz the Downing St. Moments of soul mates blair/ bush are gettin interesting

"Bin Laden and Omar alive and well says Taliban commander

Kabul: Al Qaida chief Osama Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar are alive and well a Taliban commander said.

"By the grace of God, he is in good health." Said Commander Mullah Akhtar Usmani about Bin Laden to Pakistan’s Geo TV in an interview at an undisclosed site.

In the interview, his face was partly concealed by a black turban. An assault rifle was propped up at his side."


http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID...

dbeach " life is a beach"
lets keep it that way

[Straight Shooter]

10. Have they checked the videotaping room of the White House?

Just askin'. Maybe he's under Karl Rove's desk.

[applegrove]

11. I would guess N Korea?

[MichiganVote]

12. Try Crawford, Texas

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. He is hiding at a military base in Tehran. Just ask cheney next week

[Enraged_Ape]

15. He's sitting in his tightie-whities on a hassock in Crawford, TX....

and he's just made it to the "boss" level of Halo 2 on Dubya's X-Box.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

17. Well...that narrows it down, doesn't it? Have they looked ln the....

...Pentagon basement offices of the OSP?

[jobycom]

19. Dude could shave and change clothes and become an extra in Hollywood

for all Bush cares to find him. I doubt anyone's been looking since they got their pipeline rights in Afghanistan.