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JohnOneillsMemory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-04 02:06 PM
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9. Read this British account of bin Laden protected by US commandoes in 1999.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_watson.html

"In the spring of 1999, a British couple called Alan and Cindy
Thompson were driving through Pakistan, in the very area that they're now talking about as being bin Laden's location. After driving for 11 hours on dirt roads they came to a checkpoint and were detained by
armed Pakistani guards.

The next day the Dawn newspaper, one of the
biggest newspapers in Pakistan, reported that this couple had found
the secret lair of Osama bin Laden. More interesting is that they
reported that this location had been visited by US consulate officers, British, Australian, and Swiss ambassadors, and that it was guarded by a team of US commandoes.

After the couple were picked up by the British embassy they were invited to a garden party where all the British ambassadors and aid workers were bragging that they were stationed in the same area as bin Laden's secret hideout.

After the couple got back home to England they saw a newspaper article calling for the capture of bin Laden. This was a few months
before Clinton signed an executive order mandating bin Laden to be killed on sight. The couple immediately contacted Scotland Yard in
London; they contacted the FBI and the Pentagon and in every case got nothing. No response, no request for an interview. Nothing."
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