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US strikes focus on Tora Bora, bin Laden hunted

United States officials believe Osama bin Laden is still in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan, but they say his exact location is unknown.

US bombers have pounded the region for days in an effort to destroy a final area of fierce resistance by followers of bin Laden, who is blamed by the US for the September 11 attacks on America.

But several media reports this week raised the possibility that the Saudi-born militant may have slipped over the border to Pakistan.

15/12/01 11:08:28 | ABC Radio Australia News

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