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Titolo: Bin Laden e' vivo,purtroppo...

Bin Laden Is Back in Saudi Arabia -
Is Working Closely with Baghdad
Based on summary of latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly Revelations
19 October:  DEBKAfile reveals that the long-lost al Qaeda leader,
Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, is alive and inSaudi Arabia. He is believed to
have landed secretly at the end of September, shortly before the latest
upsurge of international terrorist attacks against the French oil
tankerLimburg, the shooting of American Marines in Kuwait, the Bali bomb
disaster.
This exclusive information reached DEBKA-Net-Weekly (October 18, Issue 81)
from its most credible intelligence and counter-intelligence sources. His
re-appearance in Saudi Arabia, which withdrew his citizenship and sent him
into exile, brings to a close the debate and speculation rife since the Tora
Bora battle in Afghanistan 11 months ago over Bin Laden's fate and
whereabouts.
Two sightings of the elusive terrorist chief have now been reported - both
in the wildest, most inhospitable regions of Saudi Arabia, the Rub al Khali,
the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and Najran on the Yemen
frontier.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly's sources are certain that Bin Laden has brought with him
his closest companions - his Number Two and chief of operations, the
Egyptian Ayman Zuwahri, the hard core of the Islamic terror group's command,
his close family and his bodyguard. The size of this party indicates the al
Qaeda leadership's belief they have found a safe hideout, situated in the
Rimar Ar Rakabh (Rider's Dunes), deep inside the Empty Quarter, a 220,000-
sq. m expanse, the largest sand sea on the face of the earth which straddles
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen and Oman.
Here, the al Qaeda chief was seen on horseback - the way he was often
depicted in Afghanistan before the American 2001 invasion - reportedly
riding through the barren  lands of the nomadic Al Murrah tribe, about 100 m
southwest of the Al Ghawar oil fields.
No signs of disability or ill health were on view.
The Al Murrah, renowned as first rate field scouts, are among the fiercest
elements of the extremist Muslim Wahabi sect, Saudi Arabia's state religion,
and number some of Bin Laden's most fervent followers. Without friends in
the Al Murrah, this empty wasteland is impassable and uninhabitable.
The second bin Laden sighting took place in the Najran, a region lying
across the frontier between the south Saudi province of Asir and Yemen.
Here, he was observed on Saudi Bani Yam Saudi tribal land opposite Oman on
the fringes of the Empty Quarter. The Bani Yam are close allies of the
neighboring Yemeni tribes of the Hadhramauth, the Saudi-born terrorist's
ancestral homeland.
In the Najran, Bin Laden is not only within reach of his Yemeni friends and
kinsmen, but in a position to control and deploy the 700 al Qaeda fighters
who escaped Afghanistan at the end of 2001 and early 2002 and set up base in
the Asir province.
Al Qaeda fugitives from the Afghan War have settled at strategic points in
the Gulf and Middle East Region, a legion of close to 2,000 battle-seasoned
zealots, ready and waiting for orders. Intelligence estimates reaching
DEBKA-Net-Weeklyplace around 1,000 fighting men inside Saudi Arabia, most
concentrated in the Asir, the rest scattered round the kingdom; 300-400 in
Yemen; 150 in the south Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp at Ein Hilwa; 300
in Mashhad, northern Iran; and 150 in the north Iraqi Kurdish districts of
Bayara and Tawalla, where Iraqi instructors trained al Qaeda operatives in
chemical warfare earlier this year.
His presence in Saudi Arabia explains the easy flow and frequency of
statements and messages reaching the Arabic satellite TV station al Jazeera
and other media in the region this month from Bin Laden and his lieutenant,
that were succeeded in rapid succession by fresh terror outbreaks. Some even
speculate in Washington that the mystery sniper who has murdered 9 in the
Washington area this month may be an al Qaeda operative.
The most intriguing question is this: How did the Islamic terror master
manage to slip into Saudi Arabia? What political and intelligence elements
lent him a hand?  The American and British maintain an extensive military
intelligence presence in the Gulf region for the buildup to the war on Iraq.
Without a helping hand from some governmental body or official, Bin Laden
and his top staff could not have touched Persian Gulf soil, let alone Saudi
Arabia.
How he manages to move in the dark was indicated in the testimony presented
by National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden at a Senate hearing. He
admitted that these terrorists have learned how to evade US interception
technology (first reported by DNW on September 6:  Al Qaeda Messages Still
Invisible.)  While the terrorists are able to feed disinformation to the
NSA, US intelligence has virtually no clue that any attack is coming.
What US intelligence has picked up is the deadly partnership taking shape
between Iraq and al Qaeda, whose potential for damage gives its heads
sleepless nights.
 It enables Saddam to vicariously hit US Gulf forces, including warships and
carriers and strike at US targets outside the region, as well as giving him
the power to manipulate oil prices by sabotaging oil installations and
routes, using al Qaeda as his proxy.
And there is more. DEBKA-Net-Weekly's intelligence sources report the al
Qaeda's return in the last two weeks to their previous training bases at
Bayara and Tawalla in northern Iraq. Some 150-180 fighting men are assembled
no more than 200 km from the US-Turkish special forces vanguard in the
north. They have been joined by a large group of Iraqi military intelligence
officers.

 Is Working Closely with Baghdad
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fino a quando fara' comodo a Bush e alla sua cricca stai tranquillo
che non morira' mai...