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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45594)	2/23/2004 12:24:39 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

May be you are right.. the latest is that Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Sunday that Pakistan's para-military troops had been deployed on Pakistan-Afghan border to nab Osama bin Laden who, he said, was reported to be in the vicinity of north-south Waziristan. Meanwhile, armed forces spokesman Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan dismissed as 'ridiculous' and 'totally baseless' reports that Osama had been 'cornered' in Toba Kakar mountains north of Quetta or any additional troops were being deployed for a hot operation against Taliban or Bin Laden in north-western Pakistan. Responding to a question about location of Osama bin Ladin in an area north of Quetta, Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said a foreign newspaper had reported it but these were merely media reports. The British newspaper, the Sunday Express, reported that US and British special forces had cornered Osama bin Ladin inside an area of 16 kilometres North of the town of Khanozai and the city of Quetta. "No foreign troops are in that area," Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said. The interior minister, on the other hand, said that Frontier Conbstabulary with back-up from a brigade of army would conduct the search operation to apprehend Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda elements. The operation, he said, would be kicked off "within the next 24 hours".