The net tightens around Osama bin Laden US-led forces are narrowing their search to the deserts and mountains of Baluchistan for the al- Qaeda leader, report AHMED RASHID, in Islamabad, and DAVID WASTELL

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Serena Hotel in Quetta, with its flower-filled courtyards, fountains and fruit trees, and ornate decor drawn from local traditions, prides itself on the luxury of its amenities and warmth of its service.

Among the visitors enjoying local specialities at the hotel's Loralai Restaurant last Thursday night was a small group of lean and fit-looking Americans who clearly were not tourists, but security agents who would say only that they had a job to do. By next morning they were gone, vanished into less welcoming surroundings of the nearby mountains as surely as their quarry disappeared from ...

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