FAISALABAD, April 4: Investigators believe they will find vital clues about Osama bin Laden as some “code words” have been found on a wall of kitchen in the Faisal Town hideout where Abu Zubaydah and 18 other Al Qaeda members were arrested last week.
In the backdrop of mystery shrouding the fate of Osama bin Laden, the FBI and Pakistani agencies gave an indication about him, saying they had found certain code words inscribed in the kitchen wall during raid on the Al Qaeda men’s hideout on Canal Road such as “Friday: Dawood and Abu Kamel”, “Saturday: Osama and Anees”.
Similarly, words ‘Lahi’, ‘Sabhoo’, ‘Murad’, ‘Al Mujahid’, ‘Asad’, and ‘Badar’, which were also found written on the wall of the kitchen, indicate the duties of these persons for different days of a week.
Investigators are working round the clock and exchanging comments with spies and experts to reach a conclusion about the code words as “arrested persons are not cooperating with them, claiming that the same were written by the person killed in the shootout,” sources revealed on Thursday.
The investigators are giving very importance to the code words of “Osama for Saturday duty” and trying hard to decipher the code-sign which has become a challenge for them.”
Sources said the investigators had an uphill task for discovering future plans, links and connections of the arrested Al Qaeda members with Osama because they all had strong nerves and will. Yet, interrogators are confident that special investigation gadgets, used for scanning inner of human minds, will ultimately help obtain all what the detainees have in their minds.
Sources said the detainees were also being interrogated to know whether they had ever met Osama or seen him in any part of Pakistan.
One of the persons who was picked up from his house during the crackdown and later released by the joint team of FBI and local police, told this correspondent that “photographs in four different get-ups of one person shown to him by the investigators were that of Abu Zubaydah’s”.
Another person, who was rounded up during the raid and released after interrogation, told this correspondent that he was separately grilled by some foreigners with the help of translators for tracing some clue of Osama and his Al Qaeda network.
Anti-terrorism squads of local police and personnel of some secret agencies were seen questioning some property dealers working in posh localities. They were demanding information about the persons who rented houses during the last couple of months, especially foreigners.
Sources told that information was also being collected by the secret agencies about the activities of foreigners studying in local institutions.
Meanwhile, the body of the alleged Al Qaeda member, who was killed during the raid, has been shifted from Faisalabad to an unknown place under tight security.
Inquiries conducted by Dawn at the Allied Hospital show that the body was brought to the hospital at 5:30am on March 28 by a constable of Nishatabad police station, Liaquat Ali. The dead, whose age was shown in record as 31/32, was mentioned as “unknown” in the column of mortuary post-mortem register.
According to insiders, the body was that of Abu Al-Hasnat of Syria.
Hospital sources revealed that some “foreigners” had removed eyes from the body and took samples of blood from various organs for DNA and other tests to ascertain his identity.
Sources said the postmortem was conducted in guarded mortuary ward of the hospital. Members of the medical board who conducted the postmortem were warned by the FBI agents and police commandos not to disclose any of the information pertaining to post-mortem or the presence of the foreigners on the eve of incident.































