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Suspected bin Laden`s hideouts under 24-hr surveillance
The US is maintaining round the clock surveillance of the caves and tunnels in Afghanistan where terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is suspected to be hiding, US intelligence officials said.
The US is maintaining round the clock surveillance of the caves and tunnels in Afghanistan where terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is suspected to be hiding, US intelligence officials said.
They said hunt for bin Laden has narrowed to a few complexes of caves and tunnels which could be safe hideouts of the suspected terrorist behind the September 11 attacks.
ABC television network quoted the officials as saying that the United States has information about bin Laden's mountain hideouts and is keeping them under 24-hour surveillance from the air and ground.
Now, the debate is whether to go after bin Laden and other leaders of his Al Qaeda terror network by using giant 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs, or to take the greater risk of sending in commandos, the network said. Expert say the benefit of sending in special operations forces after bin Laden is the certainty of knowing his fate.
I think there's a huge upside for the American and allied efforts to actually capturing or very definitively confirming the killing of some of the Al Qaeda leaders to include bin Laden, said John Hillen, who was in the US special forces for 6 years.
Defence sources told the network that plans for raids against bin Laden's strongholds are constantly being revised and rehearsed.
They said military planners were awaiting the right intelligence and conditions and a decision by President George W Bush to make their move.
Bureau Report
ABC television network quoted the officials as saying that the United States has information about bin Laden's mountain hideouts and is keeping them under 24-hour surveillance from the air and ground.
Now, the debate is whether to go after bin Laden and other leaders of his Al Qaeda terror network by using giant 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs, or to take the greater risk of sending in commandos, the network said. Expert say the benefit of sending in special operations forces after bin Laden is the certainty of knowing his fate.
I think there's a huge upside for the American and allied efforts to actually capturing or very definitively confirming the killing of some of the Al Qaeda leaders to include bin Laden, said John Hillen, who was in the US special forces for 6 years.
Defence sources told the network that plans for raids against bin Laden's strongholds are constantly being revised and rehearsed.
They said military planners were awaiting the right intelligence and conditions and a decision by President George W Bush to make their move.
Bureau Report