Osama leaves hideout ahead of US commando operation

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Osama leaves hideout ahead of US commando operation

 

ISLAMABAD, Aug 22 (PNS): Osama bin Laden, the Arab

millionaire who

has been living in Afghanistan for several years, is believed to

have

moved to a secret location following reports of an impending

commando

strike by the United States of America to capture him.

 

Intelligence sources here who have been monitoring the

activities of

Osama bin Laden and his outfit the Al Qaida, told the Indian

Tribune

that he had gone incommunicado several weeks ago after

Pakistan

allowed UN observers to be stationed along its border to monitor

sanctions imposed against Afghanistan.

 

It is generally believed that the stationing of these UN observers,

equipped with sophisticated communication and detection

equipment is

a precursor to a dramatic commando operation by the US

Special Forces

to capture Bin Laden.

 

These sources said that Osama bin Laden, along with a dozen

of his

very close associates, had suddenly moved to an undisclosed

location

and was communicating with his cadres only through

messengers to

avoid possible detection.

 

The US had attacked his bases in Afghanistan with Tomahawk

missiles

in August 1998 without causing any tangible damage and the

reports

that time had suggested that the US experts had zeroed in on his

location through the signals emanating from his satellite

telephone.

He had subsequently abandoned that particular mode of

communication.

 

US has been trying to secure the custody of Osama bin Laden to

face

trial in the US for the past couple of years but Afghanistan has

refused to accede to its requests. End.

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