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Article: Pakistani Intelligence Hunting for Bin Laden; Agents in Afghanistan Aim to Prevent Entry
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 27, 2001
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Pakistan has launched a manhunt of its own inside Afghanistan for
Osama bin Laden and other leaders of his al Qaeda terrorist network,
sending Pakistani intelligence operatives across the border in hopes
of locating the Saudi-born fugitive, according to Pakistani and
Western sources.
Senior Pakistani intelligence officials said the intense search
for bin Laden and his close associates was ordered after they
received credible reports that bin Laden might try to flee to
Pakistan along the country's porous 1,400-mile border with
Afghanistan. The idea is to locate bin Laden, then share the
information with the United States and allow the U.S. military to
take the lead in capturing or killing ...