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Mystery Americans on the trail of bin Laden?(bin Laden sighting)
NYT ^ | 05/15/06 | Carlotta Gall
Posted on 05/15/2006 10:35:21 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Mystery Americans on the trail of bin Laden?
By Carlotta Gall The New York Times
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2006
CHITRAL, Pakistan This quiet mountain resort, better known for its polo games and mountain treks, has become the latest site of interest in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, much to the outrage and bemusement of its inhabitants.
Chitral is the remotest northwestern territory in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, stretching along the Afghan border to the high mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs, following the Wakhan Corridor, the long finger of Afghanistan that reaches to the Chinese border.
The territory is home to rare falcons and the snow leopard and is cut off by snow from the rest of the country for six months of the year.
It is here, in the largest town, also called Chitral, that four Americans from the U.S. Embassy rented a house last autumn, apparently preparing for a long stay, according to Siraj ul-Mulk, a member of the traditional ruling family here and the owner of the Hindu Kush Heights Hotel overlooking the valley where the four stayed.
But the house remained unoccupied until two weeks ago, when an American arrived with two carloads of furniture and equipment, provoking a local politician to object in Parliament and lead a street protest against the presence of what he termed an American "secret agency."
The American left three days before the demonstration took place, police officials said.
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"Mystery Americans on the trail of bin Laden?(bin Laden sighting)"
NYT ^ | 05/15/06 | Carlotta Gall
Posted on 05/15/2006 10:35:21 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
"Mystery Americans on the trail of bin Laden?"
By Carlotta Gall The New York Times
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2006
CHITRAL, Pakistan
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The territory is home to rare falcons and the snow leopard and is cut off by snow from the rest of the country for six months of the year."
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