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...bin Laden's left on the infamous videotape was not to be outdone in his fulsome praise of his host. He complimented bin Laden for the "great job" of organizing the Sept. 11 attacks. He regaled bin Laden with dreams and prophesies presaging such an act and said it most certainly had Allah's blessing. But there is no such certainty about the identity of bin Laden's mysterious guest. He was first identified by Saudi officials as Sheik al-Ghamdi, a militant Saudi cleric and former professor of Islamic theology known for making firebrand anti-Western speeches. Later, senior...
...fairly certain that no solider searched that village even though it was far more accessible than those higher in the mountains. The bomb, it turned out, had fallen harmlessly in an open field, but the hostility I felt there was obvious. I couldn't imagine those people turning bin Laden over to the US even for the promise of $25 million. No government here keeps its promises - why should one that bombs them...
...Even with the Taliban gone, bin Laden has the right connections to disappear. His fairy godfather in the Tora Bora region is a warlord named Younis Khalis, who invited him to Afghanistan in 1996 after even Sudan didn't want him. Khalis lives in an adobe compound a short distance from Jalalabad on the road to Tora Bora. He was close with the Taliban, which used his land as a parking lot for its tanks - more than a dozen of them were blown apart by US missiles and now lie wrecked on Khalis's land. Khalis himself...
...This is all speculation, of course. It is possible that bin Laden is long gone. Sources who say he was in Tora Bora in the first place are notoriously unreliable. Local commanders grew more certain he was here the more they thought the U.S. would pay them to fight. The Pentagon said it heard him on a radio but that can be faked. People living near his city home in Jalalabad can't agree whether they have seen him in recent years, and Al-Qaeda prisoners say he fled two weeks...
...expect a long wait for the mystery of bin Laden's great escape to resolve. A man named Atiqualla is well positioned to know where bin Laden is. He's an assistant to a top commander privy to secret discussions, and he interrogated a dozen Arab prisoners. Some told him they had seen bin Laden recently, other said they hadn't. The bottom line, Atiqualla says, is "no one has any idea...