Bin Laden Escaped in Tora Bora Fight: U.S. Officials

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Bin Laden Escaped in Tora Bora Fight: U.S. Officials

Osama bin Laden was in the Tora Bora mountains last year but escaped as the U.S.-led coalition began its air assault in the eastern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday.

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Osama bin Laden was in the Tora Bora mountains last year but escaped as the U.S.-led coalition began its air assault in the eastern Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday.

Afghan war detainees have told U.S. interrogators respectively that bin Laden was in Tora Bora mountains in early December, talked with his al Qaeda fighters and then slipped out of the areawith the help of local sympathizers.

But U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld still wants to see hard evidence of bin Laden's whereabouts before he comes to any conclusions, according to a senior U.S. defense official.

U.S. forces continue trying to track bin Laden and al Qaeda loyalists in the rough terrain along the southeastern border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Officials said they believe the al Qaeda leader may be alive and moving across the border.

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