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Nov. ２０th, Tues. 　”Taleban abandon bin Laden”



１）「東亜日報」より→http://www.donga.com/

英紙「ビンラディン氏、家族と逃走中」

NOVEMBER 20, 2001 09:50
by 李基洪 (sechepa@donga.com)


英ザ・タイムズ紙は１９日、オサマ・ビンラディン氏がタリバーンからも捨てられ、アフガン国内で家族および補佐官らと逃走中であると報じた。

同紙は、タリバーンが「ビンラディン氏がこれ以上我々の保護を受けていないだけでなく、受けられる領域の外にいる」と宣言し、ビンラディン氏は３人の妻と子供達、警護員および補佐官らとともにジープに乗りバンカーからバンカーへと逃避中であると報じた。


同紙はまた、ビンラディン氏が第３国に亡命するとすれば、亡命先は中東、特にアルカイダ組織の基盤である湾岸地域になるだろうと分析し、ビンラディンの妻の実家のあるイエメンが最も有力視されると指摘した。


米軍は、レーザー誘導マーベリックミサイルとバンカーバスター（地中貫通爆弾）でビンラディン氏一行が身を隠していそうな場所を徹底して爆撃しており、地上では８００人の精鋭デルタフォース隊員が夜間透視鏡と閃光手榴弾などを用意してビンラディン氏の隠れ場の捜索に乗り出たと米時事週刊誌タイムが報じた。


一方、アフガニスタン北東部クンドゥズで抵抗しているタリバーン軍のバシル司令官は１９日、国連の安全の保証を条件にタリバン兵撤退の方針を明らかにした。これにより、北部同盟をはじめとする反タリバーン勢力が近く南部の一部を除く殆どのアフガニスタン地域を掌握する見通した。


南部のカンダハルでは、部族長らが権力委譲問題を話し合う中、北部同盟軍とタリバーン軍が一進一退の攻防戦を繰り返した。




２）The Times→　http://www.thetimes.co.uk/

MONDAY NOVEMBER 19 2001

Taleban abandon bin Laden

BY RICHARD BEESTON, DAVID CHARTER AND ZAHID HUSSAIN

Terror chief takes wives and children from bunker to bunker

Hundreds of allied troops on the trail


OSAMA BIN LADEN was left isolated and on the run in Afghanistan last night after the routed Taleban leadership left him to his fate.
The Taleban, who harboured their “guest” for years and refused to hand him over after the September 11 attacks, declared that he no longer enjoyed their protection and was beyond their help.

With most of Afghanistan now in the hands of opposition groups, and the Taleban reduced to two shrinking pockets of control around Konduz and Kandahar, bin Laden and his al-Qaeda supporters found themselves alone and for the first time on the front line of the war.

Hundreds of American and British special forces troops were yesterday criss-crossing the rugged mountains of southern and eastern Afghanistan on one of the greatest manhunts in history. Downing Street said that coalition forces were gaining a “stack” of new intelligence material which could lead them to pinpoint their quarry.

Bin Laden, who is travelling with his three wives, children, bodyguards and advisers, is thought to be moving in a convoy of Jeeps from one bunker to another.

Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taleban’s Ambassador to Pakistan, displayed little interest in his fate. “I do not know where he is; whether he is in other areas of Afghanistan or has left Afghanistan,” he said. “But I know this much: he is not in the area of our control.”

With bin Laden on the run, US fighter-bombers have stepped up their pounding of suspected safe houses and caves, directed by spy planes and satellites. The intensity of the bombing was clear yesterday with reports of 30 people killed in the village of Shamshad, five miles from the Pakistani border. Earlier 62 people were reportedly killed in another attack on an Islamic religious school near Khost.

In Kandahar and Konduz, al-Qaeda forces have begun to clash with their erstwhile Taleban allies. Afghan Taleban fighters have been massacred by fundamentalist foreign forces in Konduz and last night moderate Taleban commanders were reported to have offered to switch sides.

The narrowing focus of the allied military bombing operation marked a shift from the attacks on Taleban front lines to the destruction of bin Laden’s hiding places.

“I think he’s still in Afghanistan,” said Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State. “It’s getting harder for him to hide as more and more territory is removed from Taleban control. A lot of reports suggest that his freedom to manoeuvre has become quite limited.”

Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, said that as bin Laden’s powerbase weakened so Afghans would be tempted to cash him in for the £19 million American bounty on his head.

Younis Qanooni, the Northern Alliance’s interior minister, pinpointed a possible hiding place. “According to my information, bin Laden is still in Kandahar province in Maruf, some 130 km (80 miles) east of Kandahar city. He has training camps there and strong underground bunkers.”

Downing Street cautioned that bin Laden was a survivor who could still remain at large for some time. “He will know that the fall of Kabul and the coalition success are providing us with a stack of new intelligence material,” said a spokesman. “To the best of our knowledge he remains in Afghanistan. He is on the run and cannot hide from justice for ever.”

Bin Laden is known to have prepared for this phase of the war and has taken some steps to confuse his pursuers. The Arabic daily al-Hayat newspaper quoted an al-Qaeda member as saying that bin Laden had recruited ten lookalikes.

The millionaire Saudi Arabian was last seen ten days ago when he gave an interview to a Pakistani journalist who was taken from Kabul blindfolded and driven for five hours.

Despite his attempts to throw trackers off his scent, the distinctive-looking terrorist chief could still find it difficult to hide because of the large retinue that travels with him. Although he has built a network of bunkers and caves, which withstood a decade of attacks from Soviet forces, they are vulnerable to modern surveillance techniques.

If he is flushed out he could try to follow the example of hundreds of Taleban fighters and escape into Pakistan. The authorities there have sent troops and tanks to borders with orders to arrest any fugitive Arabs. But the porous border is difficult to patrol, and once in Pakistan bin Laden would enjoy strong support from the local Pashtun tribes, many of whom volunteered to fight for his cause.

If he needed to find refuge in a third country, he might be tempted to head for the Middle East and particularly the Gulf, the bedrock of his al-Qaeda network.

By far the most attractive country in the region is Yemen, where the bin Laden family orginally comes from and where his in-laws live.