KABUL, July 10 (Online): Afghan President Hamid Karzai said today that Osama bin Laden is not in Afghanistan, but gave no suggestion of where he thinks the Al-Qaeda leader may be hiding.
His comment came three days after Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said bin Laden is not in Pakistan and could be hiding in southeastern Afghanistan.
U.S. officials believe bin Laden is somewhere in the rugged mountains between the two nations.
Also today, Karzai joined condemnation from around the Muslim world of yesterday's bomb attacks that left at least 49 people dead in London. British officials say the blasts bear all the signs of an Al-Qaeda attack.
Karzai called the bombings an attack "against all of mankind."
"This is an attack, not against the city, this is an attack, not against a nation, this was an attack against the whole of mankind," Karzai said.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Taliban, Abdul Latif Hakimi, said the British people are paying the price for what he called the "evil deeds" of their rulers.
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To say that Osama is not in Afghanistan is probably correct. But should not the question be: why is Osama in the region at all? Why has he declared war on the West?
According to Professor Robert Pape who has written "Dying to Win," an exhaustive study into the motivations of suicide bombers and related, so-called acts of terror. The results of this 8 year study which saw the author travel to all countries under conflict in search of data, came to the following conclusion.
His findings: It is not religion that drives the attacks(Jihad) against the West, nor is it due to what George Bush claims is the variable behind the attacks, "they hate us because we are free."
This statement and rationale is, of course, absurd.
It's the occupation, not the fundamentalism, says Professor Pape. It is a strategic objective that motivates the Jihadists.
The data strongly suggests that a central objective of which is to drive democratic states and their military forces from what they view as their homeland. To end the occupation.
Bruce G. Richardson Posted by Bruce G. Richardson, United States of America
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