BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Last al-Qaeda stronghold 'falls' (#)

  „"Anyone who paves the way for al-Qaeda forces to live in the White Mountains will be given capital punishment," Hazrat Ali said. In other developments: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, visiting Afghanistan, says US sole war aim is to defeat terrorism Plans for a possible al-Qaeda terror attack on central London have been found in Kandahar, the Portuguese paper Expresso reports Several US marines injured while on demining duty at Kandahar airport US special envoy James Dobbins to reopen the US embassy in Kabul as a liaison office on Monday A British-led military team is in Kabul to urge Afghanistan's new administration to accept a substantial international peacekeeping presence Bin Laden's voice The defeat of al-Qaeda on Afghan soil has, however, done nothing to resolve the mystery of Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts. "Osama Bin Laden is not here," tribal commander Haji Zaman said. An unconfirmed report from Washington said Bin Laden had been heard giving orders over a short-range radio in the Tora Bora mountains over the past week.“

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