Pakistani sources report: Bin Laden already gone from Afghanistan: “The most wanted man in the US, Osama bin Laden has

silently left Afghanistan for an undisclosed destination and has

moved out of the Afghan territory at least 4 days before the

religious Shura of the clerics issued its recommendation to leave the

country.

Sources in Pakistan, known for their close contacts with Taliban as

well as some officials of the students’ militia confided to The News

that Osama bin Laden was no longer on the Afghan soil since

Monday.”

Where in the world has he gone, if so? Forbes details the global network of groups possibly aligned with bin Laden’s Al Qaeda, and notes some pertinent negatives:

Though accurate information about bin Laden’s grand alliance is hard to

come by, it is clear that it does not include many of the states that United

States regarded as enemies or potential enemies in the 1980s and 1990s.

Iraq, Syria and Libya, for example, are largely secular nationalist regimes.

While they abhor America, and no doubt rejoice at the murder of Americans,

they are mortal enemies of the kind of Islamic fundamentalism represented

by bin Laden and his allies. Iran, meanwhile, practices a Shiite brand of

fundamentalist Islam that is vehemently opposed to bin Laden’s version (the

extremist Wahhabi tendency). Over the past five years, in fact, Iran has been

financing a war against bin Laden and his Taliban allies in Afghanistan.