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Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004

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Osama will be caught: Karzai

KABUL: The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has said Osama bin Laden is `definitely' in the region and will eventually be caught, though American and Pakistani generals insist the trail is cold. ``It is very difficult to say where he is hiding. He cannot be away from this region. He is definitely in this region,'' Mr. Karzai told CNN's Weekend Edition. ``We will get him sooner or later, trust me on that.'' Speculation on Osama's whereabouts has long focused on the mountains along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Al-Qaeda leader slipped away from Afghan and U.S. forces three years ago. Pakistan's army has mounted a series of bloody offensives against foreign fighters near the border this year, and American forces launched a winter-long operation last week against Taliban rebels on the Afghan side. — AP

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