Osama Bin Laden has escaped Pakistan

Osama Bin Laden has fled Pakistan into Afghanistan, a British newspaper has claimed quoting Taliban warlords.

According to the Sun, Al-Qaeda chief escaped as Pakistan stepped up its military campaign on its border area. Qari Hussain – wanted for training suicide bombers – said he had met Bin Laden in Quetta near the Afghan border, the newspaper claimed. He said: “Bin Laden recently left for Afghanistan. The military operation left him with no choice.” The claim was supported by Taliban warlord Shamim Mehsud, holed up in Pakistan.

The news came as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates confessed they had received no decent intelligence on Bin Laden’s location for “years”. He added: “If we did, we’d go and get him.”