Pakistani intelligence believes Osama bin Laden is dead, "but there is no evidence"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Pak intelligence believes Osama is dead: Zardari

http://www.geo.tv/4-27-2009/40810.htm

Updated at: 1508 PST, Monday, April 27, 2009

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari said Monday that Pakistani intelligence believes Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead but acknowledged they had no evidence.

"The Americans tell me they don't know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him. And our own intelligence services obviously think that he does not exist any more, that he is dead," Zardari told reporters.

"But there is no evidence, you cannot take that as a fact," he said. "We are between facts and fiction."

Zardari was responding to reports that Pakistani Taliban in the troubled Swat valley have said they would welcome bin Laden if he wants to visit the former Pakistani hill resort which is now in the hands of Taliban.

"The question is whether he is alive or dead. There is no trace of him," the president said.

[CJCRANE]

1. Pakistan earthquake in 2005 hit

the region Bin Laden was alleged to be in.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Kashmir_earthquake

[Occam Bandage]

2. Wishful thinking, I think.

Things get much easier for the Pakistani government if there's no bin Laden.