Osama Bin Laden and other big Al-Quesda fishes in US Custody?
Sonam Wadwa, Indiadaily special correspondent

There are many indications that Pakistan finally delivered what US wanted. Recent breakdown of Al-Queda central command into smaller regional cells and emergence of new cells all over the world shows something very catastrophic happened in the Afganistan-Pak Al-Queda Central command. Recent disgust of Pakistan manifests it anger : we did what you wanted us to do! Now leave us alone. It is most likely that Osama is in US custody and will be presented to the world a week before November 4th US presidential election and that will make sure that Bush retains Whitehouse.

Recent enlistment of Aafiya Siddiqui, the Pakistan-born woman suspected of al-Qaeda links whom the FBI has put up in its Most Wanted list, is reported to be already in the custody of US secret agencies for the past one year. This may be a new trend from Bush administration till the election is won. For example, there are many indications that Saddam was in Kurdish hands and sold to US for special concessions to Kurds in Iraq way before he was announced captured. 

Though the FBI believes her to be in Pakistan, the Online News quoted intelligence sources in Pakistan as saying that though Aafiya had come to Pakistan in January 2003, she had been handed over to US authorities. 

Aafiya stayed with her friend in Islamabad for a few days and later went up to Karachi to see her mother settled there. Soon after landing at Karachi Airport, she was picked up by secret agency personnel and handed over to the FBI. 

Aafiya's mother, a resident of Karachi's Gulshan Iqbal area, also confirmed the arrest reports of her daughter, but added she was threatened and told to keep quiet about the matter. 

Aafia, now 32, received a biology degree from MIT in 1994. University records show she lived in an on-campus dorm in 1995 and listed her home address as Karachi. 

  

 



 

 

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