Hunt for Osama Bin Laden Shifts Gears

by Mary Louise Kelly, NPR

Nearly five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Osama Bin Laden is still a free man. U.S. officials are not sure where he is, although it has long been assumed that he is hiding in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Although the U.S. government says the hunt is still on, the CIA recently closed its Bin Laden unit.

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• Morning Edition, July 3, 2006