At Pakistan's Khyber Pass, potential American adversaries lie in wait.(The Dallas Morning News)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: September 23, 2001| Author: Jones, Gregg | Copyright information

KHYBER PASS, Pakistan _ "Go back America," reads the graffiti scrawled on a mud wall near the historic Khyber Pass border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Any American soldiers venturing into these rugged mountains in search of Osama bin Laden should take those words as a sobering warning of the hard fight to come, local residents say.

For in these forbidding badlands, a natural fortress littered with boulders as big as houses and honeycombed with ca...

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