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Waziristan: Bin Laden's hiding place?

By Rahimullah Yusufzai
BBC correspondent in Peshawar

There is growing world attention on the remote Pakistani tribal region of South Waziristan as efforts continue to locate Osama Bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects.


However, so far no senior al-Qaeda or Taleban figure has been caught in this semi-autonomous area where the Pakistani army beefed up its presence after the US intervention in neighbouring Afghanistan in October, 2001.

There are persistent reports that sympathetic Pashtun tribesmen in the area are providing fugitives with shelter and support.

In the latest government move to pin them down, the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe was fined $95,000 under a local law of collective responsibility.

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Homes demolished

Pakistan has pursued the classic carrot and stick approach in its seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), including South Waziristan, in a bid to seek tribal support for the US-led war on terrorism.

A record number of development projects, some funded by the US, have been initiated in the under-developed tribal region to improve education, health and communication facilities.

But tribes that refuse to cooperate have been punished with the demolition of homes, sealing of shops and business, seizure of vehicles and dismissals from government jobs.

Tribal elders have already delivered 60 out of 123 tribesmen on a wanted list accused of sheltering suspects. They have promised to step up efforts to surrender the rest.

The strategy of the authorities seems to revolve around interrogating the suspects and locating al-Qaeda and Taleban fugitives through information provided by them.


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Guess #2: Tajikistan

TAJIKISTAN DAILY DIGEST
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From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 15:09:33 EDT

RUSSIA BLAMES MURDER OF TAJIK PRESIDENT'S ADVISER ON BIN
LADEN

The murder last week in Dushanbe of President Imomali
Rakhmonov's foreign policy adviser Karim Yuldashev was committed on orders from
Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden with the aim of
destabilizing the situation within Tajikistan, an unnamed
senior Russian military official based in Tajikistan told
Interfax on 20 July. He said the murder was discussed and
planned at a meeting in Pakistan last month. He added that
bin Laden has allocated $1 million for subversive activities
in Tajikistan. It is not clear whether he offered any
evidence to substantiate those claims. LF