Article: Bin Laden messages `limited' to notes.(A)

Byline: Rowan Scarborough

Osama bin Laden is not emitting any electronic signals that would give away his location in Afghanistan and has had only limited communications with supporters through handwritten notes, U.S. officials say.

Since his orchestrated September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, bin Laden has stayed on the run, moving from cave to cave hide-out, sometimes more than once in one day, said officials, quoting intelligence reports.

U.S. sensors have not picked up any communications by bin Laden or top leaders in his al Qaeda terrorist group, which has several thousand members.

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