ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has been narrowed to a 40-square-mile area in Pakistan, ABC News reported Tuesday.
Authorities are casting a net around the towns of Angoor Ada and Wana in southern Waziristan, an area with a strong al-Qaida support base.
Authorities told ABC News there is new information from electronic intercepts and intelligence on the ground that shows bin Laden is very much alive, somewhere in the rugged terrain of Waziristan.
Local sources there said al-Qaida has affiliates in different cities from Wana to Karachi, responsible for transporting al-Qaida members and sending messages by camel, enabling bin Laden to avoid U.S. spy planes and satellites overhead.
Four FBI and CIA agents are stationed with Pakistani troops to relay U.S. intelligence information but even the Pakistanis have a hard time operating in the region.
