Pakistani government sources tell ABC News they have "credible reports" that Osama bin Laden and his entourage have moved down from high mountainous peaks along the Afghan border to a valley area 40 miles inside the Pakistan border.
The officials say the reports put bin Laden around Kohistan's Kumrat Valley.
Officials said the reports were validated by the release of bin Laden's audio tape yesterday, which appears to have been recorded only two weeks earlier.
Such a quick turn-around suggests, say the officials, that bin Laden is much closer to civilization than he had been previously.
Previous audio and video tapes have taken four to six weeks to become public.
From Yahoo news here:
Two counterterrorism officials in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said U.S. intelligence is aware of the bin Laden message. One of the officials said there is no reason to doubt its authenticity.
If authentic, it would be the third tape that bin Laden has issued this year — a sharp increase in the volume of propaganda issued by al-Qaida since August, according to terror experts such as Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a private U.S. company that monitors militant message traffic and provides counterterrorism intelligence services to the U.S. government.
"Al-Qaida messaging volume levels are at the highest now than at any point since the group's inception," Venzke said.
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