(Washington Post) Peter Finn - With U.S. forces closing in on him during the battle of Tora Bora in late 2001, Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, Abdallah Tabarak, took possession of the al Qaeda leader's satellite phone on the assumption that U.S. intelligence agencies were monitoring it to get a fix on their position. Tabarak moved away from bin Laden and his entourage as they fled, while continuing to use the phone in an effort to divert the Americans and allow bin Laden to escape. Tabarak was captured in possession of the phone, and is today one of the leaders of the 600 suspected al Qaeda and Taliban members being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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