-Caveat Lector- >>>Now. It seems as though UbL has been lost. From one South Asian country, he could only have gotten lost in ANOTHER South Asian country, assuming he's not lost in the orginal South Asian country. Many year ago, a Middle Eastern country, Iraq, was at war with a South Asian country, Iran, the one to which UbL may have fled in his flight to flee the fires that flutter, floatingly, fiercely flaming as they from fleets fly . In them olden dayze, we supported Iraq to neutralise Iran. But, once that was done, we turned on Iraq, which was and is still on war-like terms with Iran. So, we are left with an unstable bunch of -Stans (Afghan, Turkmen, Uzbek, et al), we have no association to speak of with Iran and we are still at war with Iraq. To make things interesting, another associate armed by the Chinese, Pakistan, is almost at nuclear war with still another associate armed by the Ruskies, India. Let's see ... what's left? Bangladesh (East Pakistan of old) ... Sri Lanka (Ceylon of old) ... forget Myanmar ... anyway, where UbL went is anyone's guess because every country that could help is either at war with us or with one of our associates. And all we want is their oil? Give me an aspirin! A<>E<>R <<<
>From WND }}}>Begin This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26033 Sunday, January 13, 2002 FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Iranians linked to bin Laden escape? Sources say top al-Qaida figures granted safe passage by Tehran Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition, DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. � 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The conviction is gaining ground in some Western intelligence agencies that Osama bin Laden, his family, Ayman al-Zawahiri and thousands of al-Qaida fighters made good their escape from Afghanistan through the illicit sea route created by Lebanese-Iranian super terrorist Imad Mughniyeh for smuggling operations in the service of terrorist organizations. They are believed to have made their getaway from Afghanistan in the first week of December, crossing secretly into Iran and heading out through the Persian Gulf � only to disappear again. According to the latest findings, the two top al-Qaida executives have most probably gone to ground somewhere in Saudi Arabia, one of the Gulf emirates or East Africa. The discovery that al-Qaeda was being allowed to esca pe through Iran prompted President Bush�s blunt warning to Iran last Thursday against harboring "al-Qaida murderers." It also explains why, following the discovery of the Karine-A smuggling vessel with a cargo of Iranian arms, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the first time defined Iran as a dire menace to Israel, even more than the Palestinians. On Dec. 8, WorldNetDaily reported, based on Debka sources, that, in late November, bin Laden had packed his family out of Afghanistan to Pakistan. According to accumulating intelligence, he moved his family so as to draw his American searchers' attention away from his real escape route, which a week later took him and al-Zawahiri from Afghanistan directly into Iran. Bin Laden and his top lieutenants had been gone from Afghanistan two weeks when the U.S. Special Forces-Pashtun Tora Bora search-and-kill operation was at its peak. The fugitives left through southwest Afghanistan. On Dec . 1, they were sighted at Gandalak south of Herat, where they rendezvoused with Mughniyeh�s men who guided them across the border between the Afghan towns of Ghurian and Kenar e-Kopeh a few days later. Moving under the protection of and with logistical assistance, vehicles and guidance from Iranian intelligence officers, bin Laden and party reached Sanjan in northeast Iran Dec. 7, from whence they headed south to the Ir anian military airfield of Bir Jand. The last lap of their journey through Iran brought al-Qaida leaders to Bandar Abbas, Iran's big naval and air base on the Persian Gulf. Intelligence sources believe that the ferry which carried the Iranian arms freight from Bandar Abbas to the Iranian island of Kish, for loading aboard the Karine-A, also brought bin Laden and his men to the vessel that to ok them to their onward destinations: a Persian Gulf port, one of the Yemeni or Saudi Red Sea ports, the Horn of Africa or East Africa. Mughniyeh�s arms-smuggling fleet is believed to consist of six to eight cargo vessels. One was the Karine-A captured by the Israeli navy ten days ago with its contraband arms freight. The containers aboard the other ships are thought to have carried al-Qaida and Egyptian Jihad Islami fugitives. These discoveries make it clear that Iran was up to its neck in the al-Qaida escape conspiracy. Imad Mughniyeh, top terrorist operations chief for Iran�s radical spiritual leader, Ali Khamenei, organized the logistics; the escapees were led overland through Iran to its main Gulf outlet, under the protection of Iranian intelligence officers. Bin Laden and company sailed from an Iranian port to their new hideouts aboard vessels of the same smuggling fleet that delivered Iranian arms to the Palestinian Authority. Subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly End<{{{ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutta + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
