Where is Osama? Proof points to Yemen

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may be alive and in his ancestral homeland Yemen where he is being protected by his tribesmen. According to ...

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may be alive and in his ancestral homeland Yemen where he is being protected by his tribesmen.

According to The Sunday Telegraph, Laden is reported to have fled Afghanistan last November travelling along opium traffickers’ routes through eastern Iran then down through the desert of Baluchistan in Pakistan to the Port of Gwador, an area mostly off-limits to foreigners.

Al Qaeda issues chilling manifesto

LONDON: The Al Qaeda has issued a new chilling manifesto setting out the strategy of the organisation and making a series of chilling threats, a British paper said on Sunday, quoting Yosri Fouda, an Al Jazeera reporter.

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‘‘It is the closest the organisation has come to setting out a strategy for its war against the Jews and crusaders,’’ Fouda told the Sunday Times. ‘‘It is time that we get even. You will be killed just as you kill and will be bombed just as we bomb,’’ the document said, according to Fouda.

‘‘You should expect from us jihad, resistance and punishment,’’ the manifesto stated. (PTI)

Laden is then thought to have travelled by traditional Dhow across the Arabian Sea to Oman and on to Yemen, protected by tribesmen of the Hadhra Maug, who are fiercely loyal to his family.

The newspaper quoted an American official as saying: ‘‘We left too many windows. We could not seal the border with Pakistan and we failed to monitor shipping particularly in those early days.’’

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The new evidence came to light among thousands of documents captured by Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence Service, during raids on buildings used by Hamas, the Islamic militants, and Yasser Arafat’s compound in Ramallah, on the West Bank, in last March.

The revelation that Laden is in Yemen comes in the wake of a taped message of the Al Qaeda leader, broadcast on Al Jazeera last Tuesday, authenticated by experts.

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