High-tech snooping for bin Laden
U.S. forces searching for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan will soon implement high-tech surveillance tactics in the region, enabling them to monitor the area 24 hours a day, seven days a week, CNN has learned.
It's believed that the constant surveillance of the border region and the "squeeze play" by U.S. and Pakistani forces surrounding the mountainous frontier will present the best chance ever to net the world's most-wanted terrorist.
Bin Laden has eluded capture since U.S. troops launched a search for him in late 2001.
Top administration officials believe bin Laden may begin to feel the heat from the troops now hunting him and might start to move.
"We are putting the pieces in place to throw the net over him," one official told CNN.
Among the devices that will be in place within days are U-2 spy planes flying at 70,000 feet, taking pictures, using radar and intercepting communications.
