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The search for Osama bin Laden may have ended this day when word came that a CIA drone, equipped with missile fired on a group of suspected Al Qaeda officials, “killing them all” according to a CIA spokesperson. There was no confirmation as getting a Special Forces team to the site, buried in the Afghan mountains, was near impossible because of weather conditions in the area.
Still, the question “Where’s Bin Laden” kept reverberating around Washington with no definitive answers from officials or spokesmen for the CIA were given. CIA Chief George Tenant was questioned on Capitol Hill and could give no conclusive answers as to whether Bin Laden was dead or alive.
In other related news, upbeat reports about the fate of kidnapped journalist Daniel Pearl had many optimistic that Pearl would be freed sometime soon. Pakistani Police had been in touch directly with the man they believed to be the mastermind behind the kidnapping of the Wall Street Journal Reporter. Sources said they had been able to reach out to him, and were assured Pearl was still alive and were in the process of negotiations but no one knew for certain how long it would take.
Olympic organizers were weighing the issue of giving the U.S. the go-ahead to fly the partially destroyed American flag, recovered at Ground Zero during the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, scheduled to take place later on in the week. They agreed on a compromise to allow the flag to be part of opening ceremonies but will not be part of the traditional procession, but will be carried separately by athletes accompanied by an honor guard of peace officers and firefighters.
And Secretary of State Colin Powell said there had to be a regime change in Iraq in order to prevent Iraq’s development of nuclear weapons. So far, the UN inspection teams have been faced with a number of hurdles in order to get conclusive proof of weapons of mass destruction – so far any evidence appeared to be elusive.
All that and much-much more for this February 6, 2002 as reported by the CBS World News Roundup Late Edition.
