| U.S. forces in Afghanistan have narrowed the hunt for Osama bin Laden to a handful of cave complexes near Pakistan, where he transformed ancient irrigation tunnels into underground fortresses during the Soviet war in the 1980s. U.S. military and intelligence officials said that five suspected al Qaeda cave complexes located in the Paktia province, are now under 24-hour surveillance by U.S. spy satellites, U-2 spy planes and Predator drone aircraft while U.S. military planners debate how and when to attack them. (NY POST, by Niles Lathem) |