Report: U.S. jets spotted over Bin Laden base

World Tribune.com - MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE

Thursday, November 2, 2000 LONDON — U.S. warplanes are believed to have flown

over a base operated by Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden in

Afghanistan.

The London-based Al Hayat daily reported on Wednesday that two unidentified

jets were spotted hovering over a base in which Bin Laden was believed to

have taken shelter. The newspaper said the latest plane, a reconnaissance

jet, was spotted over Kondhar this week.

U.S. officials in Washington have refused to confirm the report, attributed

to Arab diplomatic sources in Cairo...