| Osama Bin Laden is personally leading about 1,000 fighters defending his mountain strongholds in eastern Afghanistan, a Northern Alliance spokesman said. Mohammad Amin said from Jalalabad that anti-Taliban forces had pushed al-Qaeda out of their bases in Tora Bora and were attacking them in nearby forests. "Osama himself has taken the command of the fighting. He, along with around 1,000 of his people, including some Taliban officials, have now dug themselves into the forests of Spin Ghar after we overran all their bases in Tora Bora," Amin said. |