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Homeland Security Chief: Osama Bin Laden 'In Pakistan'

By James Gordon Meek

Did Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff slip up today by revealing the presumed hideout of America's Public Enemy No. 1? President Bush's top counterterrorism official was discussing the politics of immigration reform and said he doesn't take disagreements with lawmakers personally or view them as "enemies."

"I know who the enemy is," Chertoff explained to reporters at a breakfast this morning hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "The enemy is sitting in a cave over there in Pakistan."

I asked Chertoff if he was referring to Osama Bin Laden and why he thinks he's in Pakistan. He replied, "I guess I should say, I assume he's living in a cave in Pakistan."

Read more at the New York Daily News' Mouth of the Potomac Blog.

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