If bin Laden is giving orders, it's by donkey and courier

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- If Osama bin Laden is directing plans for an attack on the United States -- as Washington intelligence officials suspect -- his instructions are likely coming out of the craggy mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the back of a donkey or under the shawl of an unassuming-looking villager.

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