Scott Pelley speaks with Pakistan’s top diplomat, foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, about the new evidence linking Pakistani intelligence to the Haqqani network.
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Fahim Khan, of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, comments on the conjencture that the Pakistani security establishment finds itself in – under pressure from the US demanding action on fundamentalists (some of whom it is closely allied with), hardly any support for its actions from the people of Pakistan and a political establishment that is attempting to assert its independence. A Newsclick Production.
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http://www.welfarestate.com/binladen/denies-reuters-taliban.htm
Thursday September 13 8:22 AM ET
Taliban Says Bin Laden Denies Role in Attacks
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement said on Thursday that Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden had told them he had no role in Tuesday’s terror attacks in the United States.
“We asked from him, (and) he told (us) we don’t have any hand in this action,” Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, told Reuters in an interview.
He said also that the hardline Islamic Taliban movement was prepared to cooperate with the United States in investigating those believed responsible for the devastating attacks.
“We are ready for any help according to (Islamic) Sharia law,” Zaeef said. But he stressed that if Washington had any evidence against bin Laden, it should be provided to the Taliban, which has sheltered the dissident as a “guest.”
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/index.html
Bin Laden says he wasn’t behind attacks
September 17, 2001 Posted: 11:21 AM EDT (1521 GMT)
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) — Islamic militant leader Osama bin Laden, the man the United States considers the prime suspect in last week’s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, denied any role Sunday in the actions believed to have killed thousands.
In a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera, based in Qatar, bin Laden said, “The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it.
“I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons,” bin Laden’s statement said.
“I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders’ rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations,” bin Laden said.
Asked Sunday if he believed bin Laden’s denial, President Bush said, “No question he is the prime suspect. No question about that.”
Since Tuesday’s terrorist attacks against the United States, Bush has repeatedly threatened to strike out against terrorism and any nation that supports or harbors its disciples.
Bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi-born exile, has lived in Afghanistan for several years. U.S. officials blame him for earlier strikes on U.S. targets, including last year’s attack on the USS Cole in Yemen and the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
Bin Laden’s campaign stems from the 1990 decision by Saudi Arabia to allow U.S. troops into the kingdom after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait — a military presence that has become permanent.
In a 1997 CNN interview, bin Laden called the U.S. military presence an “occupation of the land of the holy places.”
Immediately after the attacks that demolished the World Trade Center’s landmark twin towers and seriously damaged the Pentagon, officials of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban said they doubted bin Laden could have been involved in carrying out the actions.
The Taliban — the fundamentalist Islamic militia that seized power in Afghanistan in 1996 — denied his ties to terrorism and said they have taken away all his means of communication with the outside world.
The repressive Taliban regime has received almost universal condemnation, particularly for their harsh treatment of women. Only three countries, including Pakistan, recognize them as the country’s rightful government.
A high-level Pakistani delegation was set to travel to Afghanistan on Monday to urge Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to hand over bin Laden, CNN learned Sunday.
The Taliban, which controls more than 90 percent of the country, has threatened any neighboring country that allows its soil to be used to help the United States stage an attack on Afghanistan.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1340388/Bin-Laden-under-house-arrest.html
Bin Laden ‘under house arrest’
12:20PM BST 13 Sep 2001
AFGHANISTAN’S Taliban regime has confirmed that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the attacks on America, is under house arrest.
The terrorist leader and America’s most wanted fugitive was reported by Pakistani newspapers to be under house arrest in Kandahar in the south west of Afghanistan.
Today a spokesman for the Taliban embassy in Pakistan confirmed the reports, initially made in Pakistani newspapers, and told United Press International: “We have placed him under control after the attacks.”
But US Secretary of State Colin Powell later said he could not confirm the reports. Mr Powell did, however, announce that bin Laden was a main suspect in the hunt for those responsible for Tuesday’s attacks.
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Steve Kroft asks one of Osama bin Laden’s friends, former Pakistani intelligence officer and influential Islamic firebrand Khalid Khawaja, if he knows where the terrorist leader is.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24706
December 2001 Report by NYT: “High-Level Murmurings That bin Laden Is Dead”
Statements by US and Pakistani officials
Global Research, May 10, 2011
New York Times – 2001-12-25
As the hunt for Osama bin Laden continues on both sides of the border between Afghanistan’s Tora Bora district and the adjacent tribal regions of Pakistan, a succession of speculative and unsubstantiated reports have surfaced suggesting that the Qaeda leader may already be dead as a result of American bombing or even illness.
Over the last three days, the suggestion has come from Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, from Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the American military commander for Afghanistan, and from Kenton Keith, the spokesman here for the antiterror campaign — as well as in today’s issue of a Pakistani newspaper, The Pakistan Observer.
In the case of President Musharraf, General Franks and Mr. Keith, the statements were conjecture, based on the intensity of the bombings at Tora Bora, not on any tangible evidence of Mr. bin Laden’s death.
Only The Pakistan Observer went further, with a front-page report under an Islamabad dateline that quoted an unnamed Taliban leader as saying that Mr. bin Laden “had a peaceful natural death in mid-December in the vicinity” of the Tora Bora mountains. The report said that his death was the result of a “serious lung complication.”
“He was laid to rest honorably in his last abode” in a grave prepared according to the beliefs of the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect of Islam to which the Qaeda leader belonged, the report said.
Since Sept. 11, Pakistan’s newspapers have rarely failed to produce a daily menu of reports claiming exclusive knowledge of events relating to the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Mr. bin Laden. Many of these accounts have later proved to be exaggerated, wrong or even invented. At the same time, some of the better-known newspapers here have broken major stories ahead of American and European newspapers covering the war, often on the basis of briefings from high-ranking Pakistani intelligence officials.
A former Pakistani government official familiar with The Pakistan Observer said the newspaper has close ties with Inter-Services Intelligence, or I.S.I., the country’s principal military intelligence agency. The agency backed the Taliban from 1994, when their Islamic hard-liners first emerged as a force, until Pakistan officially abandoned them after Sept. 11.
The former government official said that the paper could have been provided information about Mr. bin Laden by the intelligence agency, but he cautioned that this might only mean that Taliban supporters in I.S.I. wanted to mislead the United States into thinking that Mr. bin Laden might be dead in order to confuse efforts to track him down.
The Pakistan Observer’s account included details on what purports to be Mr. bin Laden’s funeral, but no specifics on where it occurred, or when, nor any information about the Taliban official who was the paper’s supposed source. Nor did the article offer added information about Mr. bin Laden’s alleged illness.
“About 30 close associates of Osama bin Laden in Al Qaeda including his most trusted and personal bodyguards, his family members and some ‘Taliban friends’ attended the funeral rites,” the paper said. “A volley of bullets was also fired to pay final tributes to the ‘great leader.’ ”
Last Friday, in an interview recorded by Chinese television during an official visit to China, General Musharraf raised the possibility that Mr. bin Laden could be dead in one of the caves and bunkers at Tora Bora.
The complex was heavily bombed by B-52’s after American intelligence officials concluded that a large group of Al Qaeda fighters had retreated to the region, and that hideouts there dating to the guerrilla struggle against Soviet troops in the 1980’s were an opportune place for Mr. bin Laden to take cover.
After most of the caves were overrun by Afghan fighters belonging to anti-Taliban forces, large numbers of Al Qaeda fighters were captured or found dead, but still no trace of Mr. bin Laden. The hunt has now extended to include United States marines, and across snowbound mountain passes into Pakistan, where General Musharraf has deployed several thousand Pakistani troops to close off the passes and
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In other news Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Pakistan to do more to fight terror and said U.S.-Pakistani relations have reached a turning point since the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden. In Afghanistan, three more NATO troops were killed a day after eight American troops were killed in bombings.
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