We're on Laden's trail too, says Bush

"We're on his trail, too," Bush told ABC television in an interview. "He's probably in a hole somewhere hiding from justice."

"Bin Laden's on the run," Bush said.

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"All I can say, he's certainly not holding any parades these days," Bush said, warning that bin Laden would be captured "dead or alive."

Thousands of 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 (1,520-mile) Afghan-Pakistan border

The border is a remote region that winds through some of the world's most inhospitable terrain, criss-crossing the Hindu Kush mountain range.