Cofer Closes In On bin Laden

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast Saturday.

"If he has a watch, he should be looking at it because the clock is ticking. He will be caught," Joseph Cofer Black, the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, told private Geo television network.

Asked if concrete progress had been made during the last two months - when Pakistan has arrested dozens of terror suspects including some key al-Qaida operatives - Black said, "Yes, I would say this."-Excerpt


Joseph Cofer Black, The coordinator of the State Department's Counterterrorism Office. The State Department which presented, in April '04, a "Terrorism report" which claimed acts of terror dropped significantly in '03, when in fact the opposite was true. Two months later the State Department corrected their findings because of pressure from congressman Henry Waxman (D-Ca) who sought a review of the State Department's findings by the Congressional Research Service.

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