New Yorker) Jane Mayer - The CIA and foreign intelligence services believe bin Laden is most likely hiding somewhere along the 1,500-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mansoor Ijaz, an American financier with family members in Pakistan, contends that "Bin Laden is travelling around within about a hundred-and-fifty-mile diameter....He’s essentially being babysat by tribal leaders." Rahimullah Yusufzai, a journalist in Peshawar known for his interviews with bin Laden, says that bin Laden was likely hiding in western Pakistan. Dominic Simpson, the head of the Middle East division of Kroll, a New York-based security firm, reported on a recent meeting inside Pakistan attended by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the fugitive leader of the Taliban. Simpson said that during the meeting Omar confided, "Yes, I am with Osama. We’re travelling together in Pakistan." Observations:
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