(Pakistan) PM: Bin Laden not hiding in Pakistan

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/25/pakistan.qaeda.davos.reut/index.html

PM: Bin Laden not hiding in Pakistan


DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Osama bin Laden is not in Pakistan, as far as the government is aware, and if anyone has intelligence to the contrary, they should share it, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Thursday.

U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte, in testimony to a Senate committee earlier this month, wrote that al Qaeda leaders were holed up in a secure hide-out in Pakistan, without naming bin Laden or his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri.

"The government of Pakistan cannot respond and act on general statements, (without) tangible evidence. Our position is that none of these people are in Pakistan, Mullah Omar and bin Laden etc.," Aziz said at the World Economic Forum meeting, referring to the Taliban and al Qaeda leaders.

Aziz said Taliban members were avoiding crossing the 2,730-kilometer (1,700-mile) border between Afghanistan and Pakistan because they were increasingly being caught.

[Captain Hilts]

1. I think he's in Ossetia, Chechnya or Inguishetta. My guess. nt

[wakeme2008]

2. Ya Right "as far as the government is aware"

When you have your eyes close you see nothing :grr:

[Parche]

3. osama

I know he is in the Republic of Crawfordtexasistan............

[endarkenment]

4. Endarkenment: bin laden not hiding under my desk. nt.

[maxsolomon]

5. Bull Shit

The Pakistani dictatorship lies like the * admin.: every time they speak.

It is likely the ISI could arrest OBL & Zawahiri & Mullah Omar within an hour of deciding to do so.

Waziristan my ass.

[arewenotdemo]

9. agreed

[brooklynite]

6. Keep moving folks...nothing to see here...

[goforit]

7. Here we go again....He's hiding in the WH people.

[tabasco]

8. And we trust Pakistan ......why?

I remember what a tragic joke it was to have the Pakistanis "guard the border" for us during the Tora Bora operation. That should demonstrate to everybody that Bush was never serious about catching Bin Laden.