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mousewallrat
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 4 May 2010, 09:26 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Usama Bin Laden Is Living Comfortably in Iran, Documentary Asserts
Personally, I think that's where he's been for a long time, and that we knew it. but the US is afraid to strike Iran for fear of a wider war, etc.
Usama bin Laden gets up each morning in his dark, damp cave in northern Pakistan, gripped by fear, listening carefully for the telltale sound of a drone that is searching for him. His isolation is almost complete. Only a few trusted associates know where he is, and they visit rarely -- bringing food and news, but careful not to fall into a routine. There is no radio or other electronic device whose signal might be followed. He can’t go out in daytime for fear of satellites. It is a grim, lonely existence.
At least, that is the picture that has emerged of the life of the world’s most wanted man since he fled Tora Bora in 2001.
But a new and vastly different picture of the Al Qaeda leader's life has been emerging over the past few years. In this scenario, he wakes each morning in a comfortable bed inside a guarded compound north of Tehran. He is surrounded by his wife and a few children. He keeps a low profile, is allowed limited travel and, in exchange for silence, is given a comfortable life under the protection of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
The idea that Bin Laden is in Iran got a strong boost recently with the premiere of a documentary called “Feathered Cocaine.” In it, Alan Parrot, the film’s subject and one of the world’s foremost falconers, makes a case that Bin Laden, an avid falcon hunter, has been living comfortably in Iran since at least 2003 and continues to pursue the sport relatively freely. He is relaxed, healthy and, according to the film, very comfortable.
To make his case, Parrot, president of the Union for the Conservation of Raptors, took two Icelandic filmmakers, Om Marino Arnarson and Thorkell S. Hardarson, into the secretive world of falconers. It's a world in which some birds can sell for over $1 million, and in which the elite of the Middle East conduct business in luxurious desert camps where money, politics and terror intermingle.
Parrot, who was once the chief falconer for the Shah of Iran and who has worked for the royal families of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, still has extensive contacts in Iran and the falcon world. One of those contacts, described as a warlord from the north of Iran and disguised in a balaclava, reveals in the film that he has met Bin Laden six times on hunting trips inside Iran since March 2003. He says the Al Qaeda leader is relaxed and healthy and so comfortable that “he travels with only four bodyguards.”
Their last confirmed meeting was in 2008, Parrot says. “There may have been more since then, but I haven’t talked to my source since we left Iran,” he said.
Parrot told FOX news.com that the extraordinary disclosure by the warlord, who supplies the falcon camps Bin Laden visits on hunting forays, was not done out of altruism. “One of my men saved his life and this was the repayment," he said. "He was asked to talk. He wasn’t happy about it.”
To prove his case, Parrot said he managed to get the telemetry setting for the falcons Bin Laden was flying, and he provided them to the U.S. Government. “They could locate him to a one-square-mile area using those unique signals”’ he said. He says the government never contacted him to follow up.
Maj. Sean Turner, a Pentagon spokesman, said the U.S. Military would not comment on the whereabouts of Bin Laden.
Parrot's story is supported in the documentary by former CIA agent Robert Baer, an outspoken critic of U.S. policy in the Middle East and of how the CIA is managed. Baer, the onetime Middle East operative on whom the movie Syriana is based, explains that while he was in the CIA, he used satellites to watch the camps and they proved to be one of the key ways Al Qaeda was funded. He underscored how important falconry is to the vastly wealthy, and how Parrot’s position gave him a unique lens on that world.
Parrot's disclosures add another piece to a jigsaw puzzle that for years has fed suspicion that Bin Laden is living in Iran. Among the other clues are:
-- Iran accepted 35 Al Qaeda leaders after the fall of the Taliban, despite the schism between Al Qaeda’s Sunni roots and the Shiite regime in Iran.
-- In February 2009 the U.S. Treasury placed sanctions on several high-ranking Al Qaeda operatives working out of Iran and helping run the terror network.
-- In 2004 author Richard Miniter, in his book “Shadow War,” wrote that two former Iranian Intelligence agents told him they had seen Bin Laden in Iran in 2003.
-- In June 2003 the respected Italian newspaper Corre de la Sierra, http://www.corriere.it/,quoting intelligence reports, reported that Bin Laden was in Iran and preparing new terror attacks.
-- Some analysts believe the reason Bin Laden switched from video to audiocassettes for his announcements was that he couldn’t find a place in Iran that matched the terrain of northern Pakistan.
-- In December 2009 it was widely reported that one of Bin Laden's wives, six of his children and 11 grandchildren were living in a compound in Tehran. The living situation was made public after one of the daughters escaped the compound and sought asylum in the Saudi Embassy. It is in this compound, Parrot says, that Bin Laden has found sanctuary.
Parrot said Bin Laden was renowned as an avid falconer who captured most of the falcons around Kandahar to raise funds to support his terror efforts. Each spring wealthy Arabs from the Gulf would fill military cargo planes full of specially equipped Toyota Land Cruisers and other equipment and fly to the falcon camps in Afghanistan. "Usama would arrive and presented the falcons as gifts," Parrot said. "In return, the wealthy princes would leave the cars and equipment with him when they left, giving Al Qaeda a considerable material advantage over others, including the Taliban.”
Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism expert at the White House through two administrations, has admitted in interviews and before the 9/11 Commission that on one of the three occasions the United States was able to place Bin Laden, he was in a falcon camp set up by falcon hunters from Dubai. The CIA requested a cruise missile strike against Bin Laden. Clarke said he stopped the government from firing at the camp because “it didn’t look like an Al Qaeda camp.”
“I am not political,” Parrot says, “But he is the most wanted terrorist in the world and it has been frustrating getting the government to listen. Perhaps now they will.” |
JooX
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 4 May 2010, 11:17 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Seems legit. |
Supplemental Persona
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 4 May 2010, 11:26 · [Salvaged from Archive]
I found him.
http://www.bangitout.com/uploads/72WhereIsBinLaden.jpg |
mousewallrat
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 4 May 2010, 15:32 · [Salvaged from Archive]
http://www.whereisobl.com/
I FOUND HIM! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/40095 |
__BLAK__
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 4 May 2010, 18:18 · [Salvaged from Archive]
P-R-O-P-O-G-A-N-D-A
anyways everybody knows osama is at camp david... |
Echo1
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 4 May 2010, 19:38 · [Salvaged from Archive]
DAMN BUSH AND HIS MINDLESS PROPOGANDA!!!
oh wait... :think: |
mousewallrat
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 4 May 2010, 20:19 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Did you see OBL doing the Pedo-bear on the little redhead in front of him? Fucking Jihadis. |
MCMXCII
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 5 May 2010, 02:39 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Yeah.. Claiming he's in Iran is sort of like saying Iraq has WMD's. Sounds like a pretext to me. I mean, they've done it before right?
The most powerful intelligence agency in the world, backed by massive funding, cooperating with security forces globally, cannot find this single little camel-fucker. Am I the only one who thinks that's weird? Seeing as they catch other terrorists left and right all the time (from the London bombings for example). |
Nanabunga
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 5 May 2010, 17:32 · [Salvaged from Archive]
WMD's.
Weapons of Mass Destruction's?
:think: |
MCMXCII
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 5 May 2010, 19:03 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Weapons of Mass Destruction's?
:think:
Actually, it's Weapons of Multiple Destructions. Serious firepower! :D |
Echo1
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 5 May 2010, 19:19 · [Salvaged from Archive]
can i has? |
mousewallrat
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 5 May 2010, 21:32 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Actually, it's Weapons of Multiple Destructions. Serious firepower! :D
Actually, you're both wrong. It's Wienies of Massive Dimensions. No wonder Bush was so scared.:banana_sml: |
mousewallrat
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 5 May 2010, 21:32 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Actually, it's Weapons of Multiple Destructions. Serious firepower! :D
Actually, you're both wrong. It's Wienies of Massive Dimensions. No wonder Bush was so scared. |
MontysDouble
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 6 May 2010, 06:19 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Actually, you're both wrong. It's Wienies of Massive Dimensions. No wonder Bush was so scared.Truff.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3447810601_bc921b65af…
:wth: |
Quackers
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 6 May 2010, 08:00 · [Salvaged from Archive]
Interesting article even if it is alittle light on solid evidence.
I do love a good theory, and this was presented well. |
Echo1
Salvaged from Archive | Posted: 6 May 2010, 08:02 · [Salvaged from Archive]
hes probably dead anyway. they just wont tell us so we can keep killing hajis. imagine if hitler was dead in the first couple months of the european campaign... but the nazis were still spread out and in control of everything.
just a thought? |
