Bin
Laden is Still in Afghanistan
- Entire Taliban-Al Qaeda Forces Order to Evacuate All Afghan Towns
and Redeploy in Hindu Kush Mountains for Winter
Most of the media picked up Iran Radio’s claim that Osama bin
Laden had fled to Pakistan, DEBKAfile’s
military sources report that, to the contrary, the two fraternal forces,
Taliban and al Qaeda, are in mid-implementation of one of the most
complex and compressed military and logistical operations of the war,
scheduled to be completed over the weekend. Bin Laden is very much
present in organizing the move.
Taliban-Al Qaeda Forces order to evacuate all Afghan towns and redeploy
in Hindu Kush Mountains for winter. 20,000 Taliban and al Qaeda troops
in Konduz will also begin moving out and heading for the mountains
From their mountainous fastnesses, the Taliban and al Qaeda troops
will make forays into the neighboring mountain areas of Tajikistan,
the Pakistani and Indian sectors of Kashmir and the northwest Chinese
province of Xinjiang
Accordingly, DEBKAfile’s military sources
report, the 201st Russian mechanized rifle division especially trained
in anti-terrorist mountain combat, has been placed on the ready and
deployed in the Pamirs on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan frontier, to
stave off any possible infiltration by the retreating troops.
From Kashmir comes word that the local Indian commander has ordered
the 16th and 21st Corps of the Indian army to take up positions in
the mountainous regions between India and Pakistan, with the 15th
Corps in Leh also on the ready, to head off any incursions.
Senior commander's death was not big loss for al Qaeda
As to the claim that one of Osama bin Laden’s senior commanders,
Muhammad Atif, was killed in a US air bombardment, DEBKAfile’s
military experts rates this loss as being of limited tactical import.
In the last few years, Bin Laden did not employ Atif as his top tactician,
but put him in charge of al Qaeda bases and training facilities in
Afghanistan, including the Hindu Kush fortresses.
Bin Laden’s senior military commander today is Muhammad Ahmed
Hamze - nom de guerre Abu Hamze - who serves directly under bin Laden,
Ayman al Zuwahiri and Mullah Omar, as top operational chief.
The discovered document in Kabul and al Qaeda's nuclear weapon
manufacture
DEBKAfile’s intelligence and military experts
also discount the “documents” discovered in a base south
of Kabul, which claimed to bear instructions on how to build nuclear
weapons and missiles. Crude red herrings, the instructions turn out
to be translations of materials available in any bookshop or Internet
site.
The only member of the al Qaeda network, who know about the group’s
weapons of mass destruction resources, beside its top leaders, are
Midhat Mursi, a chemical engineer, and Abu Kebab, a member of the
Egyptian Jihad Islami.
At the Tora Bora base near Jalalabad, Mursi built and managed
the network’s facilities for the manufacture of nuclear, chemical,
biological and toxic weapons and trained agents in their use.
Abu Kebab may be the director of bin Laden’s nuclear program.
Two days before the suicide attacks against the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, the facility was evacuated and Mursi transferred
to a hideout near bin Laden in the Hindu Kush Mountains
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