US finds al-Qaeda's winter stronghold

"US finds al-Qaeda's winter stronghold
NBC News has learned that a mud compound in remote Pakistan is part of what U.S. intelligence called the winter headquarters of al-Qaida. Senior officials say U.S. intelligence discovered the location early this winter and that al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, stayed there much of January and was captured after moving to another location. Seen from a satellite, the compound is close to the Afghan border, near six mountain passes and accessible mostly by motorbike. A relative of the house's owner, who says he knows Osama bin Laden, says lots of people come and go and al-Libbi may have been among them. He and others say they saw Pakistani troops recently move in, seizing bombs, weapons, CD-ROMs and satellite phones."
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