Top ten Osama Bin Laden sightings
*Since the terrorist mastermind's disappearance following the
September 11th attacks, there have been numerous reported sightings of
Osama bin Laden, some stranger than others. Here we look at the top ten
over the past decade.
*In 2001, a man in Colorado informed authorities that he had seen the
terrorist attending a Rotary Club event
*In October 2001, an American woman told the emergency services that
she had encountered Osama bin Laden at a convenience store in Pleasant
View, Utah.
*On December 17, 2001, a man in Colorado Springs, Colorado, informed
authorities that he had seen the terrorist attending a Rotary Club
event.
*A senior Afghan official told Fox News in March 2002 that he had
seen bin Laden travelling through the border territories with Pakistan.
He described the former Taliban leader's appearence as unchanged,
although he was noticeably thinner.
*On February 27, 2004, Iranian News Agency IRNA reported that bin
Laden had been captured some time earlier in Pakistan. Both the Pentagon
and a spokesperson of the Pakistani armed forces denied this claim.
*September 23, 2005. Bin Laden was believed by Pakistani officials to
be on the Afghan-Pakistani border. He is said to have been keeping a low
profile, with as little as ten men guarding him.
*January 9, 2006. Michael Ledeen, an American Neoconservative with
close ties to the Bush administration, wrote that, "....according to
Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in
mid-December.
The al-Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran,
where he had spent most of his time since the destruction of al-Qaeda in
Afghanistan."
*September 7, 2007. American counter-terrorism expert, Richard A.
Clarke, speculated that bin Laden's "phony looking beard" in a recent
videotaped message may mean his original beard had been shaved to help
him blend into different Muslim communities. Mr Clarke told ABC News,
"One place where a beard would stand out would be southeast Asia, the
Philippines, Indonesia. No one's thought he was there, but that is an
environment where most men, Muslim men don't have beards."
*In February 2008, an American woman reported to the police that she
had seen Osama bin Laden at her local library in Bellingham, Washington.
*According to an obsucre website for learning Spanish,
www.spanishdict.com, Osama bin Laden was spotted enjoying a carnval in
Tecalpulco, Mexico, in the company of his good friend Michael Jackson.
*October 18, 2010. CNN claims that: "Osama bin Laden is alive and
well and living comfortably in a house in the north-west of Pakistan
protected by local people and elements of the country's intelligence
services"
The telegraph
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