Rajan, your desire and shoe-beating may just come true.

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shriadishakti , RAJAN BATRA <r_batra_2000> wrote:> Hi, Forum> > While learning and practicing shoebeating for > daily applications ( i.e. for bringing self in > balance and for fighting evil ) I realised that it> might help us to help the world to find Osama, if > we do shoebeating regularly on the following:> > (1) All efforts (remote and/or absolute) made by > Osama bin Laden to hide from (in any form) or to > give the slip to the world police (whoever it may > be)> > (2) Any factors (remote and/or absolute) aiding > Bin Laden in his efforts to hide from the world > police.> > (3) Any and all chances(remote and/or absolute) of> Osama succeeding in his efforts to hide from the > world police.> > (4) Any and all blockages,negativity, roadblocks,> causes, factors (remote

and / or absolute)> preventing/hindering/stalling the authorities and> their efforts to find and arrest Bin Laden.> > (5) Osama's ego and superego; ego and superego of > all those who assist Osama in any way (remote > and/or absolute)> > I have been doing a similar shoebeat for a local> problem which was quite knotty and it has helped a> lot.> > Mother has said that a sinner can be forgiven if > he asks for forgiveness, but not the Devil.> > This might just work.> > Regards,> > Rajan> Hi RajanDid you know Osama Ben Laden has just been located in the north-east of Pakistan?It is the the first morning news here in Montreal.Jai Shri Mataji!Francoise 'Key capture' tightens net on bin LadenBy Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Reports received by Asia Times Online say that Dr Khalid al-Zawahiri, the son of Osama bin Laden's iconic deputy, Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been apprehended in Afghanistan in what could be a major breakthrough in efforts to track down bin Laden. On Monday night, Asia Times Online was told by high-level sources that Khalid had been trapped by Pakistani forces somewhere in the South Waziristan tribal area in Pakistan. However, he was said to have slipped across the border into Afghanistan and disappeared. On Wednesday, though, fresh reports indicate that Khalid, along

with his wife and three children, have in fact been arrested and are in United States custody. Details of Khalid's past activities are sketchy, but his capture - if true - is viewed as highly significant as he is likely to have information about the precise whereabouts and activities of his father, and bin Laden too, as they are suspected of hiding in the mountainous region from which Khalid was flushed before he fled to Afghanistan. Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri is the key al-Qaeda intellectual and ideological strategist. There has been no official confirmation of Khalid's arrest, although Pakistani military officials reported on Wednesday that Pakistani troops, supported by helicopter gunships, on Tuesday arrested at least 20 people, including some foreigners, as they combed a rugged tribal area on the border with Afghanistan in a hunt for al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives. In an ironic twist, Ayman Zawahiri was in the news on Tuesday after a tape he is purported

to have made accused US President George W Bush of lying when he asserted that most of the al-Qaeda network had been crushed. In a tape aired on Qatar's alJazeera satellite television network, Zawahiri said: "Bush's allegation that his troops have arrested more than two-thirds of al-Qaeda ... is full of lies. The leader of the most powerful country on earth is not embarrassed to say these deceptions and lies. It's gotten to the stage that he can ridicule his listeners to this degree." The latest activity in the Pakistani tribal areas is a part of a major offensive by US-led forces on the Afghanistan side and Pakistani troops on their side of the border "smoke out" not only al-Qaeda remnants, but also elements of the Afghan resistance. The United States is exerting heavy pressure on Islamabad to fully cooperate in this venture, as in the past elements within the Pakistan military and intelligence branches have been less than fully committed in assisting the US as they

resent dancing to Washington's tune. Soon after September 11, 2001, US authorities asked President General Pervez Musharraf simply whether he was "with us or against us", and Musharraf decided to go along with the US "war on terror". Now, apparently, he has been asked the same unconditional question in tracking bin Laden and co, and he has little option but to answer in the affirmative or face the consequences, such as sanctions or the loss of aid. In January, the US approved US$395 million in aid to Pakistan, almost half of which will be used to write off debt to Washington. Under the agreement Pakistan will repay $200 million to the US, which would save it about $400 million-$500 million in interest payments over the period of the loan. Pakistan's foreign debt and liabilities total $35 billion, of which $33 billion is debt. Pakistan and the US have also agreed on a framework of how to utilize another $3 billion promised by the US over the next five years. The $3

billion package was announced by President George W Bush at Camp David in a meeting with Musharraf in June last year. According to the agreement, $600 million will be disbursed each year. Half of the amount will be for defense equipment purchases by Pakistan and the other half for economic development. Afghan resistance lies lowThe "hammer and anvil" operation now under way, with US-led forces on the one side in Afghanistan and Pakistani forces on the other side across the border, is making life difficult for the Afghan resistance as its supply lines are being squeezed. It's response has been to lie low until spring, when it plans a major offensive to capture key Afghan cities. "At present, the resistance has no intention to fight the armies engaged in the present operation [uS and Pakistani]. The resistance will respond at a venue of its own choice against US interests," a source close to the Taliban told this correspondent. "Though, at present,

there is a decision to be silent, soon, when coalition forces are fatigued with their search and seize operations, they will see a new crop of youths on suicide missions," according to other sources. The vanguard of these missions will include fresh young Afghan youths who have been "tamed and chosen for this task". They will rise up from the population and blow themselves up to hit US interests and force the foreign forces to leave Afghan soil," the source said. The present Afghan operation follows the pattern of the US invasion of Afghanistan that started on October 7, 2001 in which a few Pakistani air bases were used for more than 55,000 sorties into Afghanistan. Presently, Kohat, Bannu and Jacobabad bases are being utilized, although there is no resistance from within Afghanistan at present. Khalid al-Zawahiri, and even bigger fish, might be snared in this assault, but the Afghan resistance is biding its time.

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