Bin Laden, Al-Zawhari “Safer Than Ever” Says Senior AQ Leader
Mar 19, 2004
By Bruce Kennedy, JUS

We have heard it all before. Bin Laden is cornered. Al-Zawhari is cornered. In the run up to the first anniversary of the botched Iraqi invasion and just a few months in advance of the US election, the White House wants all eyes off Iraqi and onto “public enemy No 1” as voters remain critical of Bush’s invasion of Iraq rather than focusing on the “war on terror”. And within this political framework, combined with the negative effect that the Madrid bombings had on US financial markets and is poised to have on US voters, it should come as no surprise that mainstream press is rife with reports of the impending capture of Al-Qaida’s top brass.

JUS has learned that a senior AQ leader speaking on the condition of anonymity from inside Saudi Arabia said that Bin Laden and Al-Zawhari are the safest they have been yet and warns Muslims not to be taken in by this psychological warfare.

The AQ leader went on to say that the two senior leaders of Al-Qaida moved in January and are not in the areas currently being targeted. He further said “we are laughing at recent claims that they (Americans and Pakistanis) have our Sheik cornered.”

Pakistan’s president Mushareef fueled the fabrication when he said on CNN that they expected a "high value target" was cornered in the Wana area currently being targeted by Pakistani forces, quoting reports from US counter terrorism officials. Meanwhile, Washington says its intelligence comes from Mushareef and round and round it goes. Mushareef also said that his judgment was based on the intense resistance they are encountering from fighters in the tribal areas on the Pak Afghan border. When pressed, he conceded he had no hard evidence. It is widely known that the tribesman are fierce fighters which is why the area has remained off limits to Pakistani forces in the past.

In a move of desperation, Pakistani officials have begun arresting wife’s of Mujahideen fighters in the region in the hopes that under pressure they will providing useful intelligence. If either the Americans or Mushareef’s henchmen had any real intelligence, they wouldn’t be arresting the wife’s of foot soldiers.

So we have heard it all before. And while the stock market rallied on the news of Al-Zawhari being “surrounded” and George Bush was able to bring back to the forefront the events of 911 which he continues to campaign on, the US remains bogged down in Iraq on year on, as it does in Afghanistan with the resurgence of the Taliban. We should expect more of this as George Bush’s fear rises that the American people may vote with the same sensibilities as the Spanish have, choosing peace over war. (JUS)

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