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Osama cornered near Quetta: UK paper
Daily Times (Pakistan) ^ | 9/14/2004 | BBC
Posted on 09/14/2004 10:51:56 AM EDT by Rutles4Ever
LONDON: US and British special forces have cornered Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in a mountainous area in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, the Sunday Express newspaper reported.
Quoting “a US intelligence source”, it said Bin Laden and up to 50 fanatical henchmen were inside an area 16 kilometres wide and deep “north of the town of Khanozai and Quetta”. “He is boxed in,” the unidentified source was quoted by the tabloid as saying, adding that US special forces were “absolutely confident” that he could not escape.
According to the source, Bin Laden moved into Toba Kakar mountains, the Sunday Express said. In Washington, a Defence Department spokesman declined to comment on the report. Taliban leader Mulla Mohammed Omar is believed to be with Bin Laden, according to the report.
The area is under surveillance from a geo stationary spy satellite while US and British special forces await orders to move in, the newspaper said in its early edition, received late Saturday.
The Sunday Express said it was also told in London by “a senior Republican close to the White House and the Pentagon” this past week that Bin Laden had been located.
“They have found Bin Laden,” the source described as an “intimate” of the family of President George W Bush, was quoted as saying. “They now know where he is within a manageable area which can be watched and controlled.”
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