Pakistani security forces came close to capturing Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in an operation about eight to 10 months ago, but he eluded arrest and his trail has since gone cold, Pakistan's president said Tuesday.
"There was a time when the dragnet had closed and we thought we knew roughly the area where he possibly could be," Musharraf said in an interview with the BBC aired Tuesday.
"That was, I think, some time back ... maybe about eight to 10 months back," he said, adding, "But after that, this is such a game, this intelligence, that they escape. They can move and then you lose contact."
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