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Hmm.. another twist.
Rift with Zawahiri led to Bin Laden killing: Saudi paper – The Express Tribune
US troops were led to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by his own deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, because of a simmering internal power struggle, a Saudi newspaper reported on Thursday.
Al-Watan newspaper, quoting an unnamed “regional source,” said the top two al Qaeda men had differences and that a courier who led US forces to bin Laden was working for Zawahiri.
The courier was a Pakistan national and not a Kuwaiti as the US suspected, Al-Watan said. The man knew he was being followed by the US military but disguised the fact.
“The Egyptian faction of al Qaeda is defacto running the organisation now and since he was taken ill in 2004 they have been trying to take full control,” according to the paper.
It said Zawahiri’s faction had persuaded Bin Laden to leave tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border and take shelter instead in Abbottabad near Islamabad where he was finally killed by US commandos on Monday.
With the return of an Egyptian figure in al Qaeda, Saif al-Adel, last autumn from Iran, the Egyptian faction had hatched a plan to dispose of Saudi-born bin Laden, according to Al-Watan.
Or maybe Osama felt he didnt need any weapons with adequate "protection" that allowed him to live in luxury at the mansion for 5+ years....He was living in a military contonment, far away from the presence of any US/NATO ground forces or the range of drone strikes which obviously would not be unleashed on a Pakistani military base....
But I agree with you on the "odd" part....though not wrt his weapons collection...; )
The constant being that Pakistanis' national and sectarian pride must always escape unscathed.They don't ponder the consequences of harbouring Osama Bin Laden...They dismiss comments from Senators & congressmen/woman as coming from Indian agents...Osama wasn't involved in 9/11...he really wasn't killed, if he was killed then the Pakistani forces did it...if the Americans did it on their own then Pakistan shot down the helicopter....etc.
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New Recruit
BREAKING NEWS....BREAKING NEWS....Osama has been greeted with chhappals, shoes and stones by all suicide bombers at the gates Jahnnum (hell) for falsely promising Jannat (heaven) to them for blasting themselves senselessly in the name of Jihad...
New Recruit
BREAKING NEWS....BREAKING NEWS....Osama has been greeted with chhappals, shoes and stones by all suicide bombers at the gates Jahnnum (hell) for falsely promising Jannat (heaven) to them for blasting themselves senselessly in the name of Jihad...
New Recruit
Sir,
No offensive but
you are also living in fools paradise exactly people like you are a big shame. I never observed a frightened, courage less, hopeless poster in this forum, why?
First you have to change word KHAN from your forum user name because your posts are not deserved this word, KHANs usually didn't show attitudes like in your posts.
I remember that we had talk in RD thread and i wrote you very suitable word for you, "Chronic fera". I think you remember it.
Sir,
You feel better now----you may have felt that you had a talk with me---I did not have a talk with you---. I might have responded----I wrote what I wrote----you may talk about any fear/chronic fear/ or whatever----but the bottomline is that you and your kind are just talk-----there is never a substance behind your stand----all rhetoric---steam and rage----.
Now---what you are writing to me----send it to one of the generals----tell him to get on the tv----american tv----and blast it out----blast out the american response----take it out on the american media---on american tv---in front of the american public----tell them how it is----tel them right on their face what they have done---what america has done----.
Now is the time for the pak millitary to speak out-----or forever hold your breath----. They need to talk about step by step participation of pak millitary----how and what happened----.
If not----today----pakistan is completely and openly vulnerable to indian strikes at any time any place----cold start has been re-opened----the indians would have the israelis working with them to map out the points of interest-----and the areas it can fly through without detection.
Once you have opened the flanks----or the enemy understands that your flanks are vulnerable----then you are the mercy of the enemy strike force----of a time and a place of their chosing----when that happens----you are at a total and complete loss------because you can only fight against the enemy---you xcannot fight against the time and a place of their chosing.
Bashing me ain't gonna get you anything----you need to yell at the mil. establishment----.