Feb. 22, 2004

Report: Special forces closing in on bin Laden

By JPOST.COM STAFF

US Armed Forces have closed in on al-Qaida leader Osama bin Ladin's hideout and are awaiting orders to storm the encampment, the London-based Sunday Express newspaper reported on Sunday.

Quoting "a US intelligence source", the paper said that bin Laden was holed up in a military camp in the Afghanistan mountains together with up to 50 fanatical henchmen north of the town of Khanozai and the city of Quetta.

"He is boxed in," the unidentified source was quoted by the paper as saying, adding US special forces were "absolutely confident" that this time bin Ladin could not escape.

Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Umar is believed to be with bin Ladin, according to the report.

Are they going to wait for election Day to flush him out?

I heard that he owned a restuarant at the back of soi 3 near the Grace Hotel....

o well