They were headed down a road that would take them to Jalalabad from Tora Bora.
The December 2001 siege of Tora Bora, aimed at killing or capturing bin Laden, has been hotly debated.
CNN's Walter Rodgers saw two convoys of U.S. Special Forces troops in the heart of the Tora Bora area that appeared to be leaving.
Tawheedi says that recently Haji Zaman had requested a cease-fire in the Tora Bora region of southeastern Afghanistan, where bin Laden was believed to be hiding.
For weeks, an unknown number of U.S. Special Forces troops have been involved in the effort that drove al Qaeda fighters out of the Tora Bora area.
U.S. troops and anti-Taliban Afghan fighters are searching hundreds of caves and tunnels in the mountainous Tora Bora region of eastern Afghanistan for any remaining al Qaeda or Taliban forces.
U.S. Central Command spokesman Commander Dave Culler said the leaflets were dropped in the Afghan areas of Khowst, Ghanzai, Tora Bora, Sokhta and Tarin Kowt -- primarily in the eastern part of the country.
CNN: U.S.-dropped leaflets show bin Laden in Western clothes
The relationship between this group and the ISI goes back to the Soviet war, when the Pakistanis channelled weapons to its patriarch, Jalaludin Haqqani, who commanded forces in the border area around Tora Bora.
Let's remember that after the George W. Bush administration went into Tora Bora looking for bin Laden and didn't find him, the search took a back seat to going into Iraq and getting Saddam Hussein.
"There's really not a day that goes by that I don't think about the missed opportunity at Tora Bora, but it really bothers me and I really think about that hard, about what it could have been, " says Mr Fury.
Although Blair has dodged a lot of the skeletons that haunt his fellow politicians' closets--adultery, embezzlement, bribery--his emblematic association with the controversial invasion of Iraq in 2003 has made him a household name, from Toledo to the caves of Tora Bora.
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