Bin Laden in Afghanistan and planning attacks

[JoFerret]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/23/1077497515263.htmlFebruary 24, 2004


Osama bin Laden is still in Afghanistan and is planning further attacks on American interests, a spokesman from Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime said.
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"The untrue and false propaganda that the Americans have spread about our leaders and authorities - that they will arrest them by the end of the year - is all nonsense," it says.

"It is part of Bush's electoral game so he can win the elections that he has spread these rumours all over the world.

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Taliban forces will also launch more vigorous attacks against the 12,000-strong US-led coalition in the country in the spring, it said.

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On Sunday, a lone assailant fired at a helicopter belonging to a US engineering and reconstruction firm as it took off near the southern city of Kandahar, killing the pilot and seriously injuring two of the passengers. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this attack.

[Eurobabe]

1. well, OBL got the one part right

"It is part of Bush's electoral game so he can win the elections..."

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. This is supposed to be news

Isn't that what this whole war is supposed to be about?

[JoFerret]

3. The news part

is in the timing of the announcement - just as we are hearing that there is a new push and OBL about to be captured, cornered, cribbed, cabined and confined. It's the PR counter-offensive.