21.   For his part, Omar appears to have escaped capture in recent days after an intense search in the Baghran area of the Helmand province.

22.   On Saturday Interior Minister Yunis Qanooni, interviewed on Iranian television, directly accused the ISI of helping the suspected terrorist mastermind escape capture.

23.   The army had already moved in to Bethlehem twice over the weekend and trashed the home of a local Islamic Jihad leader who narrowly escaped capture.

24.   The Chechen guerrillas in both cases were able to penetrate far behind Russian lines, take the hostages and then escape capture despite massive Russian attacks.