Here's the article, judge for yourself -
U.S. Denies Iran Report of Bin Laden's Capture
It gets interesting, saying bin Laden was supposedly captured about a year ago.. An excerpt:
The U.S. Department of Defense denied reports by Iran's official IRNA news agency on Saturday that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been captured.
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He said the reason U.S. officials had denied the report was so that they could time the release of the news of bin Laden's capture to help boost President Bush's chances of re-election at presidential polls in November.
There's been plenty of talk around here about bin Laden showing up as an October surprise. I did expect some news to break on this, given the reports of special-ops closing in and so forth.. as well as Kerry's foreign policy speech from a few days ago, which
started by referring to the capture of bin Laden and what it meant for the war on terror.
Here's the opening of Kerry's speech:
As we speak, night has settled on the mountains of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. If Osama bin Laden is sleeping, it is the restless slumber of someone who knows his days are numbered. I don't know if the latest reports - saying that he is surrounded - are true or not. We've heard this news before.
We had him in our grasp more than two years ago at Tora Bora but George Bush held U.S. forces back and instead, called on Afghan warlords with no loyalty to our cause to finish the job. We all hope the outcome will be different this time and we all know America cannot rest until Osama bin Laden is captured or killed.
And when that day comes, it will be a great step forward but we will still have far more to do. It will be a victory in the War on Terror, but it will not be the end of the War on Terror.
And UPI commenting on the speech:
John Kerry looked past the eventual day of reckoning for Osama bin Laden and pledged Friday to return diplomacy to U.S. foreign policy so that future terrorists will never have the chance to build up the type of global organization bin Laden was able to create.
Kerry said in a foreign-policy speech at UCLA that while bin Laden's days were numbered, the war on terrorism would not end with his capture or death, and the cooperation of foreign governments would be vital in ferreting out other violent anti-American extremists and their networks of financial supporters.