Report: Bin Laden Is In Pakistan's K2 Mountains

You know, it actually has been quite some time since there has been talk about bin Laden's location and according to the report, seen here at Adnkronos, U.S. forces are actually talking about going to get him:

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the K2 mountains of northern Pakistan, according to sources cited by Arabic television network, Al-Arabiya.The report also said US secret services were intending to drive him out in a major military operation encompassing the northern Pakistani tribal areas. According to the Dubai-based network, in the past few days US security and military officials had a top-level summit at a military base in the Qatari capital, Doha, to plan an operation to hunt for the al-Qaeda leader.

Now, first off, if this is true, this is going to ante up real quickly how the U.S. and Coalition forces stand with the new government of Pakistan. Let's face it, Musharraf never allowed this kind of operation and he had a helluva lot more of a beef with al Qaeda than the new kids on the block do. But, I think there may be more to this story.

First, let's look at where exactly the K2 mountains are and where they feel bin Laden is holed up:

Reports say that the CIA has located the Saudi terrorist in so-called "rooftop of the world", the area of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan to the west, in particular the chain of mountains of Nurestan and China to the north.

Now, this is just conjecture on my part, but with this being publicized and obviously, bin Laden is privy to the same thing you and me are reading...it's my contention that U.S. intelligence knows just about where he is and wants him to start moving to safer ground. I think this may be a ploy to get him on the run and the "operation" is basically some special ops forces in the area coupled with unmanned drones.

I'm hoping that a major operation DOES take place because not only will that show that the Pakistanis have given in a little, but it will show to the Taliban and all of the other fringe groups that their safe haven ain't so safe anymore.

Wouldn't it be a helluva 4th of July present to America to unveil the scattered remains of Osama bin Laden?

Terrorism: Bin Laden in Pakistan's K2 mountains, says report

Dubai, 26 May (AKI) - (by Hamza Boccolini) - Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the K2 mountains of northern Pakistan, according to sources cited by Arabic television network, Al-Arabiya.The report also said US secret services were intending to drive him out in a major military operation encompassing the northern Pakistani tribal areas. According to the Dubai-based network, in the past few days US security and military officials had a top-level summit at a military base in the Qatari capital, Doha, to plan an operation to hunt for the al-Qaeda leader.General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq and the US ambassador to Islamabad, Anne Petersen, were reported to have attended the summit.

Last week Petraeus testified before a US Congressional committee about security in Iraq and warned that members of al-Qaeda based in Pakistan's tribal areas were planning a new September 11 attack.Reports say that the CIA has located the Saudi terrorist in so-called "rooftop of the world", the area of Pakistan that borders Afghanistan to the west, in particular the chain of mountains of Nurestan and China to the north.There are fears that Bin Laden is planning new attacks on the west using Arabs but also Europeans who have converted to Islam. Meanwhile support for al-Qaeda is reportedly broadening, not only among the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani tribes that deny Bin Laden's presence in the area, but also fundamentalists including the Muslim Brotherhood that has changed its strategy.

The leader of the Egyptian-based brotherhood, Mahdi Akef, has called the Saudi leader "a mujahid that sincerely fights against foreign occupation to be closer to Allah".In an interview published on the Arab website, Elaph, read by many young Saudis, Akef said he supported the activities of al-Qaeda against occupiers and not those against the people. The first victim in this strategy was Libyan Abu Laith al-Libi, al-Qaeda's number three, killed in a US air raid in January in Mir Ali, in Pakistan's tribal areas. Two Kuwaitis were also killed in the attack and a Libyan who was one of the group's leaders.The US aircraft had targeted an al-Qaeda summit where al-Libi was meeting Abu Obeida Tawari al-Obeidi and Abu Adel al-Kuwaiti. Another Libyan leader, Abdel Ghaffar al-Darnawi, who was previously responsible for links in Iran before moving to the frontline in Afghanistan, was also at the meeting.