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CIA searching for Bin Laden in Pakistan: Report
Indo-Asian News Service
Islamabad, February 26, 2005|20:36 IST
In an embarrassing move for Islamabad, a US congressional report has said that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents and other American personnel are in Pakistan looking for Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.
These agents are based in Pakistan as "civilian contractors", the Dawn newspaper reported from Washington on Saturday, quoting the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which advises Congress and writes policy briefs for US lawmakers.
The report said both bin Laden and Al Zawahiri escaped the December 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan and, "according to most assessments, fled into Pakistan, where they have continued to elude capture by Pakistani forces and agents".
The report notes that a March 2004 Pakistan forces' offensive against suspected terrorist hideouts in the South Waziristan region failed to find these two or other major Al Qaeda figures.