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11/25/2004:

"Bin Laden Not Hiding on Pakistan Border - Army"

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden can not be hiding in Pakistan's tribal lands on the Afghan border as Pakistani forces have combed the area and found no hint of him, a Pakistani army commander said on Thursday.

Bin Laden and his bodyguards could not go undetected in the rugged tribal lands, although pockets of al Qaeda-backed fighters are battling Pakistani forces there, said Lieutenant-General Safdar Hussain.

``He requires his own protection and the kind of security apparatus he is supposed to have around would give us a very big signature,'' Hussain told Reuters in an interview in his well-fortified headquarters in the northwest city of Peshawar.

``There is not an inch of South Waziristan agency or the tribal area which we have not swept time and again and if he was here, I assure you he could not have escaped my ears and eyes.''
Full Article: nytimes.com/reuters

He's probably in Saudi in the bosom of his fam, lounging poolside.