United States President George W Bush expressed confidence that American troops will eventually capture Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
"We're on his trail, too," Bush told ABC television in an interview on Tuesday. "He's probably in a hole somewhere hiding from justice."
"Bin Laden's on the run," he added. "All I can say, he's certainly not holding any parades these days." He said bin Laden would be captured 'dead or alive'.
US troops and special intelligence agents have been searching for the al-Qaeda chief since he escaped the US bombing offensive in Tora Bora, southeastern Afghanistan, in November 2001. Their search is concentrated mainly along the 2,450-kilometre Afghan-Pakistan border.
The border is a remote region that winds through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain, criss-crossing the Hind Kush mountain range.
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