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April 17, 2002 12:00 p.m.
Where is Osama…
…and how did he get there anyway?

see where somebody in the Pentagon has "informed" the Washington Post that they have "concluded" that Osama bin Laden escaped to Pakistan during the battle of Tora Bora last December. To be sure, if you read down to the bottom of the Post piece, you will find that our top guys don't believe it and actually say there is no information whatsoever to prove that. But it's today's story and it's good reading, and hey, the Post doesn't have a lot of ammunition to use against their favorite targets — Israel and George W. Bush — today, so they might as well bash the military.



   

Well, I don't have access to the interrogation texts from Cuba — on which the Post's sources base their leaks — but if I were a betting man I'd bet that Osama was in Iran, not Pakistan. And I'd bet that he crossed into Iran relatively early in the war in Afghanistan, wearing a burka, and accompanied by about 125-150 of his family and cohorts. And I'd bet that he got medical treatment for a while, that he met with some fellow terrorists (like Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyah, the most dangerous terrorist leader in the world) and is now in southeastern Iran on R&R.

My question is, where do I go to collect my $25 million?

— Mr. Ledeen is an NRO contributing editor & resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute. He is author, most recently, of Tocqueville on American Character.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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