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The Man Who Helped Bin Laden Escape

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Posted on Jan 12, 2007

Former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a recent interview with Pakistani television that his forces led Osama Bin Laden from the mountains of Tora Bora to a “safe place” in late 2001, after U.S. troops had surrounded the area.

BBC:

Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar says his fighters helped al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden escape a U.S. offensive five years ago.

Bin Laden was moved to “a safe place” when the U.S. assault on the Tora Bora mountains began in late 2001, the Hezb-e-Islami leader told Pakistani TV.

Mr. Hekmatyar said Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, was also taken to the undisclosed location.

The rare interview was broadcast on Thursday by the private Geo TV network.

The authenticity of the interview could not be independently confirmed, but interviewer Saleem Safi told Reuters news agency it was conducted in Afghanistan nearly three weeks ago.

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By Jackie T. Gabel, January 13, 2007 at 1:11 am #
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Most of the major players in this struggle are CIA / MI-6 assets — the only reason so many detainees are grilled for all they know and are not being given public trials is so the officers handling all these operations can curtail any leakage of info. about them — same reason Bush can’t go to the FISA court: too big a chance something too secret might get sucked up in a data scoop and cross the desk of an uncontrolled judge — the black-ops / psy-ops have never run thicker and heavier and keeping the lid on it is no easy task — at the end of the day, the overwhelming extent of it (though not the detail) is an open secret in Washington, even 911 as an inside job. They’re all just scrambling like never before trying to avoid the constitutional crisis that would result if the cover were blown. You can just about kiss this so-called democracy good-bye. Every freshman you all just elected to Congress is now going through the initiation and getting the full-court press on avoiding a full-blown crisis — in the end, it’s all to save the collapsing petro-arms-drugs dollar.

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By Middy, January 12, 2007 at 6:24 pm #
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Another post with no proof, Just post whatever comes to mind.

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By Spinoza, January 12, 2007 at 2:37 pm #
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Hekmatyar used to be on the USA payroll.  More chickens roosting.

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By Quy Tran, January 12, 2007 at 11:15 am #
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An advice to Bush/Cheney & Co. “just bring former Afghan P.M. to your new Gulag camp in Cuba then hang him higher than you guys did to President Saddam Hussein”.

The whole civilized world will applause your victory in fighting terrorists !

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