January 07, 2008
Bin Laden Aide Arrested in Urban Pakistan
I was just checking this out over at The Long War Journal when Birddog 26 e-mailed this Fox News report. Both Roggio's piece and the Fox News story are based on this unsubstantiated report from The Nation claiming that Dr. Amin Al Haq, who is described variously as a "bodyguard" for bin Laden and "security chief" for al Qaeda, was arrested.
But the most interesting part? He was arrested in Lahore. Any quick map search of Pakistan will show you that Lahore is not "tribal" Pakistan or one of the "lawless" regions where Pashtun is the main language making them ethnically related to the Afghans who made up the majority of the Taliban and their supporters. It is smack dab in the middle of Punjab and is the second largest city in the country.
The implication of this should be immediately obvious: if one of bin Laden's closest aides was busy hiding out in plain site in the middle of Pakistan's second largest city, and bin Laden is still alive, then maybe bin Laden is, as I mentioned just this morning, "in Karachi directing al Qaeda from the comfort of the top floor of a luxury apartment complex.
