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...Qaeda Find a New Nest?", about possible places the terrorists can seek sanctuary [TERRORISM, Dec. 24], did not mention Saudi Arabia, bin Laden's homeland. But Saudi citizens have obviously supported al-Qaeda with money, men and serious theological underpinnings. Saudi Arabia is a vast country in which local tribal leaders can be wooed and bought, as in Afghanistan. In Saudi Arabia, where a constant stream of tens of thousands of foreigners from all over the world legitimately makes pilgrimages to Mecca, foreign Arab terrorists don't stick out. Would a relatively weak Saudi government crack down on a rich...
AFGHANISTAN First U.S. Death Sergeant 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, 31, became the first U.S. soldier to die in the anti-terror campaign when he was hit by small-arms fire in the Khost area during a mission to coordinate tribal leaders. Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar continued to elude capture, but the head of al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps, Ibn Al-Shayk al-Libi, was in the custody of U.S. Marines at the Kandahar airport...
...another fortified compound we first met the tribal leaders; all vowing Mullah Omar had not been spotted. "Don't worry about anything," said an aged Haji Mohammed Gaffar of the search for Omar, "we can't find anything to make a person worry. It's all peaceful now and the people who will build the roads and wells can come." The sixteen other leaders - all in kameez, vests and brand new army jackets - concurred, talking over each other and contributing to every question. They swore they'd not supported the Taliban, though thousands of soldiers were recruited from here...
...Laden has crossed the border, U.S. intelligence officials don't believe he has moved too far into Pakistan. He would find the safest harbor in the remote tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, where the authority of the central government is spotty and where many of the local tribes are Pashtun, the ethnic group from which most of the Taliban were also drawn. In some of those parts, bin Laden could count on a warm welcome. In Pakistan's Dabori Valley last week, where bin Laden stayed briefly after he was kicked out of Sudan in 1996, villagers say they would...
...Paktia. The Pentagon says the Paktian village of Niazi Qala harbored Taliban ammunition dumps. But visitors to the village after the attacks say leaders from the province had asked Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, to prevail upon the U.S. to stop bombing in Paktia. A convoy of tribal leaders from the area was attacked by American warplanes on Dec. 20 as they set out for Kabul to attend Karzai's swearing-in. As many as 65 people were said to have been killed then...