A curious string of events
From the UK
Telegraph:
Bali bomber captured down the road of compound
One of the 2002 Bali bombers was captured by Pakistani commandos just a few miles from where Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad by US forces earlier this week.
Umar Patek, the last of the plotters at large, was seized in a raid on the home of a family which had found him and his wife starving and begging for food in the street.
Indonesian officials said they believed he had travelled to Pakistan to meet bin Laden and was the last of the Bali bombers to remain in contact with al Qaeda's leadership.
"Umar Patek ... was in Pakistan with his Filipino wife trying to meet Osama bin Laden," said defence minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro. Another official said he and his wife had travelled to Pakistan under false names to seek bin Laden's "support and protection." According to Abdul Hamid Sohail, who had taken him and his wife in "on humanitarian grounds", he had not made contact with his leader or anyone while he stayed in his guest room, and could barely walk. He said he looked like he was dead when he was carried out over the shoulder of a Pakistani commando on January 25th.
And Pakistan still maintains ignorance of Bin Laden's residence?
Posted by DaveH at May 6, 2011 5:37 PM