Bin Laden: Dead... Again
Some of the rumors, false hopes and legitimate close calls in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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President Bill Clinton orders a Tomahawk missilestrike against two al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan, narrowly missing bin Laden. The al-Qaida leader had apparently just left one of the camps.
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U.S. and Afghan forces pummel bin Laden's mountain hideout at Tora Bora, Afghanistan. Reports of his death prove false and he escapes into Pakistan.
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Widespread reports that bin Laden is sufferingfrom kidney disease are discounted by his doctor, who tells The Associated Press he saw bin Laden after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and that he was in good health.
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Pakistani military sources say bin Laden is boxed into a remote 350-mile corridor stretching from the southwestern Pakistani town of Chaman to the Afghan-Iranian border.
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Pakistani forces raid the village of Lattaka in tribal North Waziristan on a tip bin Laden was hiding there.
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A top American military commander says he is confident bin Laden will be brought to justice by year's end.
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An Iranian state-run radio station reports bin Laden is in the hands of Pakistan's intelligence agency. The source, a Pakistani journalist, says he was misquoted.
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A leaked French intelligence report cites a usually reliable source claiming bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan the month before.
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Credits:
CBS, The Associated Press
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