Reply #5: bin Laden didn't cotton to U.S. troops on Saudi soil either.

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After 9/11 the U.S. moved off of Saudi soil in a New York second. How strange!

The Wakhan Corridor, which was Marco Polo's famous "Silk Road" to China, is described by the Hindustan Times as "Sticking out of northeastern Afghanistan, the corridor (a strip of land) is wedged between Tajikistan, Pakistan and the part of PoK known as Northern Areas."<28> A former Soviet military base is said to be located in the area. He had previously been thought it be in that region as far back as October 2001.
It was reported that bin Laden had decided to use the area bordering China because it is not controlled by US military, and US bombers would not attack the area for fear of hitting China.
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