stepping back in time...
Thanks to CallMeJoe for this additional link:
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http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=855866&page=1&WNT=true
"New Clues Show Al Qaeda's Trail in Pakistan
Shopkeepers in Market Town Describe Foreigners Buying Supplies, Driving Back Toward Afghan Border"
By BRIAN ROSS
"Video obtained from the Pakistani Army showed a secret al Qaeda hideaway in Pakistan that contained a huge cache of weapons, radios and sophisticated electronic equipment, including video editing machines. (ABC News)"
June 16, 2005 —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The search for Osama bin Laden has shifted hundreds of miles north, but Pakistani and U.S. officials tell ABC News it remains centered in an area around the Pakistan-Afghanistan border where the al Qaeda leader and his deputies seem to be able to move freely.
Some of the new clues in the search come from a small Pakistani market town in the tribal region of Chitral."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Debat says shopkeepers told him that "a group of Arabs came down from the mountains in a jeep and loaded bags of rice and flour and drove back up the mountain back to Afghanistan.""
ARTICLE SNIPPET #3: "The Pakistani Army now says it came very close to Zawahri last year when it raided another house, in South Waziristan, which they say turned out to be a hidden al Qaeda command center.
Buried underground was a huge cache of weapons, radios and sophisticated electronic equipment, including video editing machines."
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