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Bin Laden, deputy, living in luxury in northwest Pak protected by ISI: NATO official | The world's most wanted terrorist and Al-Qaeda's top leadership, Osama bin Laden, and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official has said. "Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave," the CNN quoted
the official, as saying, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of
the intelligence matters involved. Rather, they are believed to be living in relative
comfort, protected by locals and some members of the Pakistani intelligence services,
the official added. The official said that the general region where Laden is likely
to have moved around in recent years ranges from the mountainous Chitral area
in the far northwest near the Chinese border, to the Kurram Valley which neighbours
Afghanistan's Tora Bora, one of the Taliban strongholds during the US invasion
in 2001. He also confirmed the US assessment that Mullah Omar, the leader of the
Taliban, had moved between the cities of Quetta and Karachi in Pakistan over the
last several months. However, he would not discuss how the coalition had come
to know any of this information, but he had access to some of the most sensitive
information in the NATO alliance, the channel said. Meanwhile, responding to the
report, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that similar reports
of Laden and Omar's whereabouts had proven false in the past. Malik denied that
the two men were on Pakistani soil, but added that any information about the contrary
should be shared with the country's officials so that they can take "immediate
action" to arrest the duo. Pakistan has repeatedly denied protecting members of
the al Qaeda leadership.
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