Flash from the past: What Richard Shelby was doing in June 2001.
U.S. Has Bin Laden 'On the Run,' Sen. Shelby Says
By Vernon Loeb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 26, 2001; Page A15
Back from a six-country tour of the Persian Gulf, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) believes U.S. counterterrorism officials are winning the war against Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden.
It's not always easy to understand how, since bin Laden and other Islamic fundamentalists clearly have the U.S. military on edge. Whatever terrorist group attacked the USS Cole last October has succeeded in driving the Navy away from the Yemeni port of Aden. And the circulation of a bin Laden propaganda video in the Middle East last week, coupled with reports of increased activity by individuals linked to bin Laden, put U.S. forces on the highest state of alert throughout the region.
But Shelby, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a recent interview that bin Laden is the one who's on edge.
"He's on the run, and I think he will continue to be on the run, because we are not going to let up," Shelby said.
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