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In a message dated 9/5/2004 4:12:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sure adds fuel to all those out there that have been predicting an Osama
capture in October or an October surprise.

U.S. Near Seizing bin Laden, Official Says

Sep 4, 4:58 PM (ET)

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States and its allies have moved
closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S.
counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.
"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking.
He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department
coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.

Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months - when
Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida
operatives - Black said, "Yes, I would say this."

Black, who briefed a group of Pakistani journalists after talks with
officials here Friday, said he could not predict exactly when bin Laden and
other top al-Qaida fugitives would be nabbed.

"What I tell people, I would be surprised but not necessarily shocked if we
wake up tomorrow and he's been caught along with all his lieutenants. That
can happen because of the programs and infrastructure in place," he told
Geo.

Bin Laden and his top associate, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding
some place along the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Officials have divulged no solid intelligence about bin Laden's precise
whereabouts, and it's not clear if they have any.

Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, and
Black's visit comes weeks after Pakistani security forces captured Ahmed
Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in
east Africa, and Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, a Pakistani computer expert
allegedly linked to al-Qaida operatives around the world.

The arrests led to a terror warning in the United States, and arrests in
Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

Black attended a meeting of the Pakistan-U.S. Joint Working Group on
Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement in Islamabad on Thursday and Friday.

During the talks, Pakistan asked U.S. officials for more helicopters,
surveillance and communications equipment to help Pakistani forces guard
border areas near Afghanistan "more efficiently," a Pakistani official at
the talks said.

"We got a positive response from the American officials," said the official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Pakistan has deployed about 70,000 troops along the Afghan border and
conducted several military operations this year in its lawless and largely
autonomous tribal regions against al-Qaida suspects and their local
supporters.

Black hailed Pakistan's efforts in counterterrorism - despite criticism from
Western officials who say that elements of the former ruling Taliban regime
in Afghanistan still operate inside Pakistan.

"In terms of national programs and effectiveness, I would put Pakistan up
against anyone else ... If you look at the arrests they have made, the
information they have developed and the lives that have been saved, Pakistan
is doing a great job," he said.

He added, however, that, "you can always do more."

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 Sure adds fuel to all those out there that have been predicting an Osama
capture in October or an October surprise.

U.S. Near Seizing bin Laden, Official Says

Sep 4, 4:58 PM (ET)

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States and its allies have moved
closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S.
counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.
"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking.
He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department
coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.

Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months - when
Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida
operatives - Black said, "Yes, I would say this."

Black, who briefed a group of Pakistani journalists after talks with
officials here Friday, said he could not predict exactly when bin Laden and
other top al-Qaida fugitives would be nabbed.

"What I tell people, I would be surprised but not necessarily shocked if we
wake up tomorrow and he's been caught along with all his lieutenants. That
can happen because of the programs and infrastructure in place," he told
Geo.

Bin Laden and his top associate, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be hiding
some place along the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Officials have divulged no solid intelligence about bin Laden's precise
whereabouts, and it's not clear if they have any.

Pakistan is a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, and
Black's visit comes weeks after Pakistani security forces captured Ahmed
Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in
east Africa, and Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, a Pakistani computer expert
allegedly linked to al-Qaida operatives around the world.

The arrests led to a terror warning in the United States, and arrests in
Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

Black attended a meeting of the Pakistan-U.S. Joint Working Group on
Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement in Islamabad on Thursday and Friday.

During the talks, Pakistan asked U.S. officials for more helicopters,
surveillance and communications equipment to help Pakistani forces guard
border areas near Afghanistan "more efficiently," a Pakistani official at
the talks said.

"We got a positive response from the American officials," said the official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Pakistan has deployed about 70,000 troops along the Afghan border and
conducted several military operations this year in its lawless and largely
autonomous tribal regions against al-Qaida suspects and their local
supporters.

Black hailed Pakistan's efforts in counterterrorism - despite criticism from
Western officials who say that elements of the former ruling Taliban regime
in Afghanistan still operate inside Pakistan.

"In terms of national programs and effectiveness, I would put Pakistan up
against anyone else ... If you look at the arrests they have made, the
information they have developed and the lives that have been saved, Pakistan
is doing a great job," he said.

He added, however, that, "you can always do more."

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