Osama bin Laden hiding place visited by Taliban (& Wealthy Arab Supporters)

[kpete]

Source: Telegraph UK

By Philip Sherwell in New York and Rob Crilly in Islamabad

Osama bin Laden hiding place visited by Taliban
Osama bin Laden received visits from Taliban leaders and wealthy Arab supporters while he was hiding out in a fortified compound in a Pakistani garrison town, it has emerged.


The revelation that the al-Qaeda chief had direct contact with his followers - and did not rely solely on messengers - came as a US-led task force urgently trawled captured documents and computer files for terror plots and information about extremists.

British intelligence agents last week joined their US counterparts to sift through the material after repeated references to Britain were found in the haul retrieved from bin Laden's compound when US commandos killed him this month.

An Afghan Taliban commander, who has previously provided reliable information to foreign media, disclosed that he had visited bin Laden at the compound in Abbottabad.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8514046/Osama-bin-Laden-hiding-place-visited-by-Taliban.html

[Mr. Jefferson]

1. Next on the agenda for Seal Team 6:

Taliban leaders and wealthy Arab supporters.

[Arctic Dave]

6. I hope bush, cheney and the rest of the gang is on the guest list too.

I hope they televise those take downs. :)

[Mr. Jefferson]

10. I thought that was something that they did in less developed countries.

[Hissyspit]

15. Yes, in "advanced" countries, we just invade and occupy in perpetual war and blow up kids remotely,

rorture and give legitimacy to "debates" about what to call torture, and fail to hold our war criminals accountable.

[Arctic Dave]

20. Like the US?

[jerseyjack]

2. Taliban leaders o.k. to retaliate against but some of the wealthy Arabs

may be selling us oil.

[closeupready]

14. We could just take their oil, since they don't use oil proceeds responsibly.

And apparently are using them to finance those hostile to the US and US interests.

[iemitsu]

18. we don't use oil revenues responsibily either.

[closeupready]

19. on balance, we do.

nt

[No Elephants]

3. I'd love to know who decided that place was worth over $1,000,000.

[cosmicone]

7. Pakistan probably billed the US $1 million for it

like Pakistan has been padding various bills all along.

[JDPriestly]

12. Somebody from Silicon Valley no doubt.

[NoodleyAppendage]

16. Well, that wall isn't cheap for sure, but I agree 1mil seems high. n/t

J

[Kolesar]

4. ...because so many senior lieutenants had been captured or killed

Excerpt:

Bin Laden confided that he had to continue to meet top aides because so many senior lieutenants had been captured or killed. "He said he had no choice but to be active and meet people, despite the security risks," the Taliban leader said. "He was meeting with other top al Qaeda leaders who could get access to Abbottabad without endangering their safety."

[woo me with science]

5. Sounds like it was a regular hot spot.

There was probably a McDonald's on site featuring a weekly Bin Laden-burger special.

[cosmicone]

8. and they are forgetting Pakistani military/ISI leaders n/t

[irislake]

9. What crap!

[GeorgeGist]

11. Fear, Fear, Fear

Get it Here.

[leveymg]

13. And, if ISI knew, Saudi intel, and if Saudi intel knew, we knew . . . going back to the

very beginning there have been few true secrets - just a lot of lies to the American public about what the Bush-Cheney Administration knew. Right back to before they changed the rules of the world on us . . .

[murielm99]

17. My husband thinks that Bush/Cheney knew where

Bin Laden was all these years. They chose to look the other way. After all, they let Bin Laden's family fly out of the country when no one else was allowed to fly.

Maybe someday we will find out the truth.

[silenttigersong]

21. 911 conspiracy theories

will be looking into this,we already know that the Bush administration,chose to ignore warnings about the trade towers,they ignored real intel and amplified Saddam's WMDs.Dick Cheney arrogantly stated they would have gone to war regardless.The intimate $$$ relationship between the house of Saud ,and the Bush's goes way back.What is appalling is how the Bush admin is trying to rewrite this.