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Nearly two years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Pakistani troops have begun moving - gingerly - into a remote tribal belt where Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda fugitives might be hiding.But officials say they have no evidence the terrorist mastermind is there, and a brief military foray last week came up empty-handed. Bin Laden, they say, has melted into the mountains. It has been a long time since we have heard anything about his whereabouts, said Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema, who as head of the Interior Ministry s crisis unit is in charge of cooperating with the United States in the war on terrorism. We have received no electronic intercepts or anything to indicate where he is. Under intense pressure from both the United States and Afghanistan, Pakistani troops have reluctantly moved into several tribal areas in the ultraconservative North West Frontier Province -
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