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Where In the World is Osama bin Laden?

By Steve Sampson
Posted Monday, March 29, 2004

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come out, come out, wherever you are!


Credit: The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

Who knows? But lots of experts think he's holed up somewhere in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province--arid, punishing mountainous terrain along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border (between Kabul and Islamabad on the map above).

That's where, just last week, Pakistani forces began an offensive to root out any unwelcome terrorist guests. Yet if bin Laden's there, what's so hard about getting him? Why do even Pakistani troops have to go on "an offensive" to move around this part of Pakistan?



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Escape to Pashtunistan

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If Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan, he's probably hiding in a tiny crack in history--colonial history.

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