Pakistan "gives Al-Qaeda refuge" ("OBL is being given safe haven")

[scottxyz]

OSAMA BIN LADEN is being given safe haven with the help of Pakistani officials, British security sources believe.

Recent intelligence reports coming from remote tribal areas of Pakistan have indicated the Al-Qaeda leader is being given refuge by senior figures in the regional government.

America has given Pakistan tens of millions of dollars since the start of the war on terrorism and the hunt for Bin Laden. There is growing impatience in Washington at the failure of the military to capture him.

He is believed to be hiding along the mountainous 1,500mile frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where many people are hostile to America.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1337928,00.html

[aquart]

1. Come on, we knew that. Georgie's pals.

[Kagemusha]

2. I can't read this blurb fairly and agree "Pakistan" is giving haven.

Would the Mayor of Pittsburg count as "America" if he gave refuge to some internationally wanted person, like, say, Henry Kissinger?

[are_we_united_yet]

3. Didn't we say

we'd make no distinction between the terrorist and the states that harbor them?

Hmmm does that mean an invasion of Pakistan?

[maddezmom]

4. come on Times, tell us something we don't know....and I thinik it's coming

but could you get to your UK officials and make them talk before our elections???? :eyes:

[bvar22]

5. Pakistan....

...MUCH more likely to give NUKES to Al-Qaeda than Saddam. Pakistan REALLY has nukes; Saddam never had any.

[Kahuna]

6. Of course he is. I've been saying this over and over.

It's so obvious. Bush knows that Musharref knows where he is. Bush also knows that Musharref can't and won't give him up.

[bloom]

7. 40% al-Qaeda fugitives in Pakistan were caught in houses of people in"LET"

Lashkar-e-Toiba, or LET, is a banned organisation in Australia and it is now an offence in this country to have any association at all with the group.

The LET was also officially banned in Pakistan in early 2002. Or was it?

Geoff Thompson has just returned from Pakistan where he found that Lashkar-e-Toiba's leader is very much free, and his followers as active as ever.
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GEOFF THOMPSON: In a time when other jihadi organisations are banned in Pakistan Jamaat ul Dawa is just on a watch list. This, even though about 40 per cent of al-Qaeda fugitives in Pakistan were caught in the houses of people associated with Jamaat ul Dawa and the LET.

Sources in Pakistan close to those groups say that they remain Pakistan's secret weapon against the vastly superior Indian army, if the current Kashmir peace process doesn't work out.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1107792.htm

may 2004