Is bin Laden here?
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Somewhere in Pakistan
CIA Director Porter Goss said he had “an excellent idea” where Osama bin Laden was hiding, Time magazine reported this week. Many intelligence analysts believe bin Laden is somewhere in the rugged mountains along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But Goss said new intelligence indicates that bin Laden had access to “sanctuaries in sovereign states,” which many took to mean that the terrorist leader has allies inside the government in Pakistan, or possibly Iran, helping him avoid capture. Last week, a senior Taliban commander appeared on a private Pakistani television channel saying that both bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar were alive and well. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao insisted, though, that the two were not in his country.
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