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The Tora Bora cave complex, an entrenched network of caves and tunnels carved into the Safed Koh mountain range on the Nangarhar-Pakistan border, sustained a withering barrage of Coalition air strikes over the last 24 hours. A band of ‘Arab, Chechen and Pakistani’ militants numbering close to 300 allegedly reoccupied the infamous mountain redoubt earlier last month. The group is thought to be loyal to the late Yonuis Kahlis’s son, Anwar ul-Haq Mujahid who leads a Taliban splinter group called Tora Bora Nizami Mahaz, or the Tora Bora Military Front (TBMF).
The fortified positions and close proximity to Pakistan’s unstable western states offers militants prime fighting positions and excellent access to various escape routes. It is widely believed that Usama Bin Laden and many of al Qaeda’s top leaders withstood the Coalition’s protracted aerial bombardment against them here in December of 2001. Reports indicate Bin Laden and his close aides successfully escaped into western Pakistan where they are still thought to be hiding.....
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