Bin Laden reported safe and focused on the November elections

Bin Laden reported safe and focused on the November elections


Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is focusing Al Qaida's terrorist resources
on the conflict in Iraq, according to close aides of the terrorist leader.
They said he is safe and out of the reach of U.S. military and intelligence
forces and their allies.

Iraqi intelligence agents contacted Osama bin Laden when he was in Sudan in
the mid-1990s as part of an effort by Baghdad to work with foes of the Saudi
ruling family, The New York Times reported on June 25, citing a newly
disclosed document.
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The sources said that Bin Laden is concentrating on Iraq with the goal of
influencing the outcome of the November presidential election in the United
States. "His concentration may be switched over to Afghanistan again any
time," one source said.

A newspaper report stated that Bin Laden's next focus is likely to be
Britain where he may be "masterminding a campaign to malign the reputation
of Prime Minister Tony Blair who, the Al Qaida people say, has played a
second fiddle to the American President Bush."

The aides told the Pakistan Observer newspaper last week by satellite
telephone that Bin Laden is hiding at an undisclosed location. However, Bin
Laden has not been in Pakistan territory, either in its cities or in the
tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan, the report said.

One source told the newspaper how Bin Laden releases tape-recorded messages
through his network of agents. Once a taped message is prepared, Bin Laden
moves to three hiding places. After confirmation that he has arrived at the
third location, the tape is released.

"Tracing Osama through the tapes released by him is next to impossible and
America and company should not even dream of getting hold of their most
wanted man by this means," the source was quoted as saying.

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Source: Geostrategy