Musharraf guesses Bin Laden in Afghanistan, Karzai says Pakistan

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP282262.htm

Musharraf guesses bin Laden is in east Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD, Sept 25 (Reuters) - In his autobiography released on Monday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said his best guess is that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding somewhere in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar.

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"The fact that so many Saudis are in the Kunar area perhaps suggests that this is where Osama bin Laden has his hideout, but we cannot be sure," Musharraf wrote in "In the Line of Fire", which went on sale at bookshops in Islamabad hours before its official release in New York.

"I have said, half-jokingly, that I hope he is not caught in Pakistan, by Pakistan's troops," he added, alluding to worries about a probable internal backlash by Islamist admirers of bin Laden if he were arrested in Pakistan.

http://torontosun.com/News/World/2006/09/25/1893964-sun.html

Karzai: Osama is in Pakistan


WASHINGTON -- Afghan's president asserted yesterday that Osama bin Laden has not been in his country since being chased out after Sept. 11.

While Hamid Karzai acknowledged that the al-Qaida leader's exact location is unknown, he suggested the al-Qaida leader was in Pakistan.

"He has never been in our country after Sept. 11, after the strikes against him, after we chased his organization out of Afghanistan," Karzai told CNN's Late Edition.

Asked about a leaked French intelligence document that raised the possibility bin Laden died in Pakistan of an illness last month, Karzai said Afghanistan does not have "accurate information as to the precise location" of bin Laden.

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1. Musharraf has as much creditbility as Ahmed Chalabi and yet

he keeps porking junior.

[blogslut]

2. You got peanut butter in my chocolate!

You got chocolate in my peanut butter!

I'll tell you everything when you buy my book!

My head hurts. :(

[The Magistrate]

3. His Location, Sir, Is In The Region Of The Upper Swat Valley

North and east of the Malakand Pass, in the Kashmiri borderlands. That place is an absolute fief of the I.S.I., which probably knows his location down to the orientation of his breakfast table to the sun's rise. It is full of men trained in al Queda camps, and the heartland of jihad against the West commencing in the mid nineteenth century. He is safe as milk there.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. Great. Global game of 'Hot Potato'

it seems though, that Musharraf basically admits he is most likely in Pakistan.