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Article: Bin Laden expected to be trickier quarry.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2003
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Byline: Jerry Seper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Osama bin Laden will be much harder to find than Saddam Hussein, says a leading terrorism scholar, who believes the man who planned the September 11 attacks is well hidden in rugged mountains, surrounded by Islamic extremists who would die before betraying him.
But Saddam's capture Saturday in a hole near Tikrit, Iraq, has turned the spotlight on bin Laden, the world's other most-wanted man, and on U.S. forces hunting in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Saudi billionaire who has eluded arrest for more than two years.
U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty said yesterday that Saddam's arrest by ...