Did the Indian Airforce spot Bin Laden?

Debkafile, which according to the Times of India is “a website believed to be run by people close to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad,” claims that the Indian Airforce spotted Bin Laden by airplane or satellite between October 17th and 19th in the North-Eastern corner of Pakistan bordering India and China.

Bin Laden was actually spotted in the flesh just a few days ago – according to DEBKAfileÂ’s counter terror sources. Between October 17 and October 19, an Indian air force reconnaissance plane picked him up in the Tibet-Laddakh region close to the North-Eastern corner of Pakistan bordering India and China. Additional surveillance aircraft were called in and identified the al Qaeda leader on the move with a 10-vehicle convoy of black Japanese minivans. Four of the vehicles turned up again on October 22 heading east towards the Chinese border. Our sources maintain that the rumored sightings of bin Laden on the Lingzi Thang Plain on the Tibetan border in June may have been true then but are now outdated. In any case, he was not at the time in Pakistani Waziristan or the Afghan-Pakistani border.

The agents hunting the al Qaeda leader are working on the premise that he has decided to wait out the winter months in one of two regions: Hunza province in the Northern Frontier tip of Indian Kashmir or Little Pamir, where fanatical Tajik tribes have never allowed any Kabul government – whether Taliban or led by Karzai – to secure a foothold. Little Pamir is wedged between Tajikistan

I don’t think anyone knows for sure if this is true or not but Foxnews ran the story as well (at least according to the Times of India, although I am unable to locate the story on Fox):

The Fox Channel too made similar claims late Sunday night.

However, sources in the Indian military have dismissed the news saying they had “no such” high-level exchanges with US agencies and there was no such evidence on bin Laden.

It is well known that Indian intelligence agencies are extremely upset with US agencies that sourced all possible information from them after 9/11 while denying them any access to American information including those regarding terrorism against India.

2 thoughts on “Did the Indian Airforce spot Bin Laden?

  1. I am not able to find the link to Foxnews’s reporting of this story. Given the Times of India’s sloppy reporting I am not sure if it will turn up but I will keep looking.