Osama bin Laden's whereabouts remain a mystery to US and Pakistani forces as they crank up efforts to flush out al Qaeda and Taleban hiding near Afghanistan's eastern frontier, officials said on Monday.
US military officials in Kabul have boldly predicted his capture in 2004, and Britain's Sunday Express weekly reported that the world's most wanted man was "boxed in" by US and British special forces in the rugged mountains in Pakistan along the Afghan border.
The newspaper said Osama was within a 10 mile by 10 mile area, being monitored by a US spy satellite.
"As far as the reports of Osama bin Laden's location, I don't take much credence in them because if we knew where he was in Afghanistan, we would go get him and if the Pakistanis knew where he was in Pakistan they would go get him," US military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty said.
"We continue to have rumours over the past two years," he told a news briefing in Kabul, when asked about speculation that Osama had been spotted.
The government officials in Pakistan dismissed the report that located Osama in mountains north of Quetta.
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