Troops detained at least 25 suspects and blew up two houses in a new offensive against al Qaeda and Taliban today in a remote tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said. A day earlier, U.S. and Pakistani military officials said the whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden remained a mystery, despite a British news report saying his location had been narrowed down to Pakistani mountains near the Afghan border. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told Reuters the latest operation was launched near Wana, northeast of where bin Laden was reported to be hiding. Asked whether the operation was targeting bin Laden, he said: "It is against foreign terrorists."
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