Angoor Ada, Pakistan
The U.S. military has narrowed the search for Osama bin Laden to a 40-square-mile region of Pakistan, ABC News reported this week. Authorities said electronic intercepts suggested that bin Laden was alive and moving around Waziristan. The region is “very hostile in terms of geography—mountains, terrain, ravines—and two ferocious tribes, the Wazirs and the Mahsuds,” said political scientist Akbar Ahmed. The locals there are loyal to al Qaida, and people suspected of helping the Americans have been murdered in broad daylight. Al Qaida, meanwhile, released another tape this week threatening “new attacks, inside and outside, that will make America forget the attacks of Sept. 11.”
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