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CIA: Bin Laden in Pakistan Establishing New Camps
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In the most definitive statement in years, America's top intelligence official said Tuesday Osama bin laden is in Pakistan actively re-establishing al Qaeda training camps.
The newly appointed Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell made the assertion about bin Laden and his No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Referring to Pakistan's rugged tribal area, McConnell said "to the best of our knowledge that the senior leadership, No. 1 and No. 2, are there, and they are attempting to re-establish and rebuild and to establish training camps."
Until now, U.S. intelligence officials had declined to publicly identify, with such certainty, the location of bin Laden although he has long been suspected of hiding in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
McConnell's testimony came the day after the CIA deputy director, Stephen R. Kappes, flew to Pakistan to confront President Pervez Musharaff with "compelling" evidence that new al Qaeda training camps were being established on Pakistani territory.
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U.S. officials would not describe the evidence in any detail, but people in the intelligence community have speculated recently that the CIA may have obtained surveillance photos of either bin Laden or Zawahri in Pakistan.
McConnell's public testimony was followed by a closed, secret session with senators.
February 27, 2007 in Osama bin Laden | Permalink | User Comments (258)
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I find it amazing that after more than 5 years of searching for Usama the American government now tells the world that he is helping set up terrorist camps in Pakistan. And I'll be Babe Ruth is there with him. Why do you people continue to fool the world with these false accusations. UBL has not been in Pakistan and left Afghanistan just before Tora Bora, now you have to guess where he is and he is not sweeping out tents for his new recruits in Pak
Posted by: robert brenner | Feb 27, 2007 8:36:38 PM
So . . . if our CIA knows where he is (I think they have known for quite a l-o-n-g time), why don't we get busy and blast him straight to Hell's Gates?!? What are our politicians waiting on now?
Posted by: Drew | Feb 27, 2007 8:42:04 PM
So, wouldn't it now be appropriate to take action against these new camps? Did someone at the CIA forget about its paramilitary division?
Posted by: Dan Hunt | Feb 27, 2007 8:43:26 PM
Nah, Its just a bunch of people lying again. Bin Laden doesn't even exist. Remember...Bush lied!!!!!!
Posted by: Elmer | Feb 27, 2007 8:47:44 PM
If they knew where he was he would be gone. They know nothing. Disappointing but true, sad but even sadder they say where he is and they don't have him. Slackers
Posted by: Bill | Feb 27, 2007 9:03:15 PM
So if the CIA has the intel that he's there, why can't they seem to catch him?
Posted by: bro robin | Feb 27, 2007 9:15:28 PM
guess i was wrong! i thought he was sitting in some Saudi palace making business deals over the phone with the Bush's.
Posted by: Joel | Feb 27, 2007 9:46:26 PM
Let's take this in context though. Al-Qaeda is not one man, nor a country. It is in 50 countries and they do not fear death. Nor can we bomb their cities or infrastructure because their infrastructure is in 50 other countries. Our only chance of defeating them is staying on the offense, cutting off their funding, and STAYING UNITED!
Posted by: Robert Nunemaker | Feb 27, 2007 9:53:12 PM
Let me get this straight...we will invade a country in the middle east who is suspected of harboring nuclear or chemical weapons but we wont initiate an airstrike or special forces activity against a country that is harboring public enemy #1. Also a country that is the second largest receiver of American Aid. Doesn't make much sence to me.
Posted by: Joel Harris | Feb 27, 2007 10:05:33 PM
Why are they admitting in public they know where he is? They must really NOT want to catch him.
Posted by: Eric | Feb 27, 2007 10:13:36 PM
AHH~! Interesting, Just as Bush and Cheney
get ready to confront Iran, Osama shows back up with his training camps. I just don't buy it!!
Posted by: Alan | Feb 27, 2007 10:21:49 PM
It is certainly a shame if political considerations (respecting Pakistani territorial sovereignty) are preventing us from really fighting the war against Islamic terror. If we know where Bin Laden and Al Zawahri are, they should be taken out and then we can apologize to Pakistan.
Posted by: Harris | Feb 27, 2007 10:35:26 PM
Jeez, if we can take a damn picture of bin Laden or Zawahri why can't we send a cruise missle to the area?
Posted by: Ssmith | Feb 27, 2007 10:37:26 PM
These recent statements by the CIA are nothing but BULL! Anyone with an ounce of "intelligence", has known that Bin Laden died of kidney failure in the early part of 2002. The Bush regime have to keep this "boogy man" "alive" in order to justify the phony war on terror and the real war on liberty. Oh, and the trillion dollar defense contractors need to be kept happy as well.
Posted by: Robert Baker | Feb 27, 2007 11:01:00 PM
It's time to drop the daisy cutters.
Posted by: Dave Collins | Feb 27, 2007 11:07:03 PM
So, why not look up his address, knock on his door, and arrest him?
Posted by: marc | Feb 27, 2007 11:09:32 PM
OsamaBin laden been dead since 2001
Posted by: noone | Feb 27, 2007 11:16:05 PM
"I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."
...Compared to "I am not a crook" and "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," where does this presidential lie rank?
Posted by: Sam Walsh | Feb 27, 2007 11:38:55 PM
Why arent we hitting it if we know where he is and what he is doing?
Posted by: Paul | Feb 28, 2007 4:24:50 AM
Good get them all in one spot so you can get them all at once....
Posted by: kalo | Feb 28, 2007 4:33:42 AM
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