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Article: URBAN WARFARE TRAINING CONDUCTED AT FORT LEWIS EXERCISES AIM AT BIN LADEN.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- October 10, 2002
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Byline: MIKE BARBERP-I reporter
FORT LEWIS -- As goats and chickens grazed calmly off the dirt street of a tiny, rawboned village, a sniper's bullet rang out, and U.S. Army infantry came face to face with Osama bin Laden.
The terrorist kingpin's mug stood out among the anti-American posters lining the street. Men in various dress of black boldly slung AK-47 automatic rifles, but shielded themselves by blending into the population of men and women of a village suspected of harboring both a cache of weapons and a terrorist leader of the Saranian People's Movement named Rohman al Gazi.
Al Gazi, however, is really Sgt. Arturo Avila, an Army ...