On a Dec. 6 appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that “the United States does not know where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding and has not had any good intelligence on his whereabouts…[in] years.”
That’s not what the BBC was reporting just a day earlier
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2009/12/05/2009-12-05_osama_spotted_earlier_this_year__bbc.html,
saying that an unnamed detainee told authorities that a trusted friend of his may have seen the planet’s top terrorist in Ghazni, an eastern province of Afghanistan, early this year.
The Dec. 11 issue of DEBKA Net Weekly, an online military intelligence publication, also claims that Washington already has gotten intelligence reports that bin Laden and his entire entourage moved their operations into Baluchistan, a remote and mountainous province of Pakistan that shares a border with Iran. Despite its forbidding terrain, the area has numerous routes to Kandahar, where the U.S. has a major air base.
