By Nusrat Javeed
ISLAMABAD: After innumerable checks and counter-checks through satellite and human intelligence, the American and their allied forces in Afghanistan are getting convinced that Osama bin Laden has dug himself for the eventual showdown at a state-of-the-art military base, set in an extremely inaccessible nook of Pamir mountain range.
Till around a week ago, most people thought that Osama and his close aides were hiding in caves dug in a desolate province on the northeast of Kandahar, Ourzugan.
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