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India Denies Foreign Hunt for Bin Laden in Kashmir February 23, 2002 02:07 AM ET Email this article Printer friendly version NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian army strongly denied Saturday a newspaper report that British and U.S. special forces were hunting for Osama bin Laden in the country's strife-torn northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. "The story is totally rubbish, there are no British or U.S. forces operating in our Kashmir valley," an army spokesman told Reuters. Britain's Daily Telegraph said Saturday that soldiers from the secretive Special Air Services regiment had joined the Delta Force, the U.S. equivalent of the SAS, to hunt down the Saudi-born militant suspected of masterminding September' attacks on America. The newspaper said the decision to send in special forces came after a visit by British Prime Minister Tony Blair to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan last month. A spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defense said it did not comment on the activities of the special forces. India has been one of the most vocal supporters of the U.S. led coalition against terrorism and given logistical support to the U.S. forces during the strikes on Afghanistan where bin Laden was earlier thought to be hiding. But New Delhi has never in the past allowed foreign troops to operate on its soil. The Daily Telegraph said Indian intelligence had told the CIA they believed bin Laden was hiding in the mountains of Kashmir, protected by the Pakistani militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. An Indian army colonel said it seemed most unlikely for bin Laden to seek shelter in Indian Kashmir, where tens of thousands of Indian forces are deployed to quell a 12-year-old revolt. "He could be in POK, (Pakistan occupied Kashmir) perhaps," he said. India holds about 45 percent of Muslim majority Kashmir and Pakistan a third of the disputed territory. The rest of the Himalayan region is with China. reuters.com