Bin Laden living in house in NW Pakistan
Image via WikipediaOsama 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 said.There is much more.
"Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave," said the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the intelligence matters involved.
Rather, al Qaeda's top leadership is believed to be living in relative comfort, protected by locals and some members of the Pakistani intelligence services, the official said.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied protecting members of the al Qaeda leadership.
The official said the general region where bin 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 neighbors Afghanistan's Tora Bora, one of the Taliban strongholds during the U.S. invasion in 2001.
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The US Hellfire strikes have them both under virtual house arrest. Whoever is hiding them must be hoping the house does not explode when it is finally targeted.
BTW, the Kurram valley would be a dangerous place for bin Laden. The tribes in the region have kicked out the Taliban and they are in a state of war with them.
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