US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this evening that Osama bin Laden was still believed to be in Afghanistan, despite some recent reports that he might have fled across the border to Pakistan.
"We think he's in Afghanistan, we are chasing him, he is hiding, he does not want us to know where he is, we are asking everyone we can to help," Mr Rumsfeld said.
"People are providing lots of scraps of information," Mr Rumsfeld said, citing Pakistanis, Afghans, and people from other countries neighboring Afghanistan.
"We think he's there. We don't know if he's there, we're trying to find him, and when we find him we will announce it," Mr Rumsfeld added.