Hey, watch out for the 10 million mines

[W. Kiernan]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Ian Murray quoted:
> 
> >It is believed that bin Laden is hiding in a network of camps in the
> >north-west of Afghanistan.
> 
> By whom? A piece in today's NYT says no one has any idea where he is,
> which seems an entirely sensible thing. Do British journalists and
> British intelligence know something that their U.S. counterparts
> don't?

The top two stories on that weird site www.antiwar.com are links to the
English newspapers, the Sunday Times

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa02036.html

and the News of the World

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/4326959

from which I quote the opening paragraphs below:

  MI6 SPIES FIND EVIL BIN LADEN

  BRITISH intelligence agents have discovered the position of

  terror chief Osama bin Laden.

  A specialist MI6 squad — some working undercover in

  Afghanistan — traced the Al-Queda leader to a desolate region

  close to the town of Jalalabad on the country's north-east

  border with Pakistan. 

  PM Tony Blair's official spokesman last night confirmed: 

  "Bin Laden is in Afghanistan. We know he is there, put it

  that way." 

  When asked if Bin Laden's exact whereabouts had been

  identified, he insisted: "We know where he is."

Something about the name & format of News of the World reminds me of
Miami's Weekly World News, which this week reports that Hillary Clinton
is enmeshed in a love affair with a space alien ("I thought she was
gay!" sez ex-Pres) so you can take that News of the World article about
"EVIL BIN LADEN" for whatever you think it's worth... 

This week my eyes are on Pakistan, not Afghanistan.  Who the Hell really
wants Afghanistan anyway?  But Pakistan may be ripe for an Iran-style
popular Islamic revolution, and they've got a couple dozen nuclear
bombs.  If I'm going to speculate about what deep-n-nefarious plots
those Islamic fundis might be up to, that's the scary spot.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net