{"id":224,"date":"2005-10-10T22:26:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2005\/10\/224\/"},"modified":"2005-10-10T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T22:26:51","slug":"224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2005\/10\/224\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Osama killed in the Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"flexinode-body flexinode-1\">\n<div class=\"flexinode-textfield-5\">\n<div class=\"form-item\">\n <label>News Source:<\/label><br>\n Sify.com\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flexinode-textarea-1\">\n<div class=\"form-item\">\n <label>News Highlight:<\/label>\n<p>\nNo evidence suggests that the deadly earthquake that rocked Pakistan on Saturday injured or killed the world\u2019s top terror leader, Osama Bin Laden. <\/p>\n<p>The quake shook the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Bin Laden is believed to be hiding. <\/p>\n<p>However, authorities at this point have no information indicating he\u2019s been injured or killed, said a US official. <\/p>\n<p>Bin Laden guided the September 11, 2001, attacks aimed at New York City and Washington. <\/p>\n<p>US hopes for Bin Laden\u2019s death or capture were high in December 2001, when US and Afghan troops surrounded a cave complex sheltering Al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan\u2019s Tora Bora region. <\/p>\n<p>But Bin Laden escaped and is now believed to be living a relatively isolated existence to evade capture. <\/p>\n<p>He was last seen publicly on a videotaped message before the November 2004 elections in US. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, scores of activists from an Islamist charity linked to a banned Pakistani militant organization died in the devastating earthquake. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Jamat-ud-Dawa, a group drawn from the ranks of Lashkar, said the charity\u2019s mosques, hospitals, schools and seminaries were obliterated in Saturday\u2019s earthquake. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our members have been killed. 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