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Jul 2000
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Originally posted by DinoDoc
Post the article. |
No article yet. Fox says that AP says that two of his sons are arrested.
CNN just said that it's not certain. But from what I know, a Pakistani minister is the source.
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Eli
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Jul 2000
time: 07:26
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There ya go...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two sons of Usama bin Laden were arrested in southeastern Afghanistan in a joint operation involving Pakistani and U.S. forces, Pakistan's provincial home minister Sanaullah Zehri said.
"They were arrested from Rabat area in Afghanistan," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He did not identify the sons, but said that seven other Al Qaeda men were killed in the operation. |
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
time: 00:26
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Two sons of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) were arrested in southeastern Afghanistan (news - web sites) in a joint operation involving Pakistani and U.S. forces, Pakistan's provincial home minister Sanaullah Zehri said.
"They were arrested from Rabat area in Afghanistan," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He did not identify the sons, but said that seven other al-Qaida men were killed in the operation.
Arrested were Saad and Hamza bin Laden, two of what are believed to be 14 to 18 sons of Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terrorist organization. Saad is believed closely tied to the operations of al-Qaida.
In Washington, U.S. counterterrorism officials strongly disputed reports saying bin Laden's sons were captured. They said they had no information that would suggest any of the sons had been detained.
Zehri refused to say which military units were involved.
"They were allied forces," he said, operating near Rabat in the extreme southwestern tip of Afghanistan where it borders Pakistan and Iran.
Some sources claim Bin Laden has at least 23 children by several wives. Saad is one the oldest, in his early 20s and has emerged as an al-Qaida leader and one of America's top two dozen targets in the network. Mohammed and Ahmed bin Laden also support their father's efforts, U.S. officials say. |
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Arrian
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
time: 00:26
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Looks like it was a false alarm:
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - US and Pakistani officials denied an announcement by a provincial home minister that two sons of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden were arrested in a joint US-Afghan-Pakistani operation in southeastern Afghanistan.
"There is absolutely no truth in this report. There has been no arrest of this nature," Pakistan's Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat told AFP, dismissing claims by Baluchistan province's home minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri.
A US official who spoke on condition of anonymity from Washington also denied the reports of the capture.
"It's not true," the US official said Friday. "We have absolutely no information to substantiate that."
Zehri earlier had told reporters in the Baluch capital Quetta that he had been informed by intelligence agencies of reports that two bin Laden offspring had been arrested in the operation in the southeast Afghan town of Ribat, where Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani borders meet.
"I am in constant touch with the security forces. I was informed by intelligence agencies that the reports coming across the border (from Afghanistan) are that two of Osama's sons were caught and they were injured," Zehri said.
There was no independent confirmation of the reports the minister said he had received.
The hunt for bin Laden intensified along Pakistan's northwest border Friday, with a senior Pakistani security official warning the al-Qaeda leader could not hide for much longer if information from top terror suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, nabbed in a pre-dawn raid Saturday, was correct.
Since Sheikh Mohammed's capture by US and Pakistani forces in the northern city of Rawalpindi, US planes have been seen airdropping leaflets over Baluchistan-Afghan border areas offering money for information leading to the capture of bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. Both men have a 25 million dollar bounty on their head, as did Sheikh Mohammed. |
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There was some kind of a shootout... that much has been confirmed. Whether anyone was captured has not been officially confirmed OR denied.
Something happened... we just don't have information as to what DID happen.
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