Osama in Faisalabad?
From Aftab Ahmad
FAISALABAD--Osama bin Laden stayed for three days in Faisalabad and was lucky to slip out barely a few hours before the FBI surprise raid in Faisalabad on March 28 last when he moved out of town, as a routine, leaving behind his lieutenant Abu Zubaida who was critically injured in the short encounter on the spot.
Indication to this effect was revealed by the international mediamen visiting Faisalabad on the morning of the raid and are still continuing their detours.
Latest in the series is the New York Times special investigation team visiting here Sunday.
Even the local police and Pakistani authorities were kept completely in the dark about the target of the raids.
Elaborate arrangements were made to conduct the surprise raid.
The whole episode devolves upon the sophisticated wireless decoding ultramodern information technology whereby the American FBI manages to catch the waves of Cellular phone talk through satellite and traces backward the longitude and latitude of the phone call and exact location of its origin.
Then the recorded voice was verified to be that of Osama and arrangements were made to nab him.
Immediately "Recky" (Reconnaissance) was ordered and the vigilance reports confirmed that the 'target’ was available on site.
The vigilance reports suggested that the ‘target’ was staying in a rented house for the last three days i.e. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thereafter the FBI high-ups in Islamabad accompanied by crack airborne Commandos and marine contingent secretly landed at the Faisalabad airport from Lahore around 8:30 in the evening and with the help of local police and elite force mounted the surprise raid.
The inmates of the rented house came to know of the surprise raid when the whole area was cordoned off and the commandos and Elite Force jawans jumped over the walls.
The inmates immediately retaliated by firing in self-defence.
In the minor exchange of gunfire Abu Zubaida, a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, received three bullets and was critically injured on chest, arm and leg.
He and his companions were overpowered and taken into custody.
The prime target, Osama bin Laden, had however moved out only a few hours earlier as part of his strategy not to stay for longer time at one place.
Identity of Abu Zubaida came to be known quite a long time after the arrest during investigation of his companions.
The surprise raid codenamed "Operation Midnight" was mounted at zero hour at midnight and whole operation was completed within four hours when the FBI team flew out from Faisalabad at 5 in the wee hours.
The foreign mediamen leaked the information regarding the surprise raid in the evening and they rushed to Faisalabad by road, reaching here by sunrise.
But they found the operation completed and remnants of the encounter spread around.
The presence of Osama bin Laden has been leaked now only a week after the episode and the foreign media teams are pouring in to dig out further details.
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