Pakistan denies that OBL's capture is near

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Pakistani officials claim that neither Pakistan nor the US has a solid lead that will lead them to any major captures in the near future. Pakistani officials say that any promises to a capture are based on the electoral situation in US, not the facts on the ground in Pakistan.

Pakistan rejects US claims of closing in on bin Laden

Neither Pakistani nor US officials seem to have any clear intelligence information on bin Laden’s exact whereabouts - a fact that Pakistani officials have conceded. The Pakistani Information Ministry on Tuesday denied that any real progress had been made in recent times in the hunt for bin Laden, who is believed to be hiding out in the mountainous Afghan-Pakistan border region. “We don’t have any information about bin Laden,” the Ministry said in a statement. Pakistan’s top government spokesman, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said that Black’s recent comment about bin Laden’s imminent capture was a “political statement”, designed as an election ploy ahead of November’s US presidential poll.

[havocmom]

1. Remember how Turkey was bartering with the US for their participation

in the invasion of Iraq? Anybody think that the US and Osama are in a bidding war with the strong men running Pakistan as the auctioneers?

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2. Swift undercut! Boo-ya!

Honestly, Bush really has NO allies or friends left, does he?

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3. I would not put it past them ...

... to insert a rumor that OBL has been secretly captured in the week before the election.