A Canadian-led mission to find the remains of al Qaeda leaders in the mountainous Tora Bora region of Afghanistan ended Tuesday without uncovering whether the most notorious of all -- Osama bin Laden -- is dead. The Tora Bora region was the scene of heavy fighting and an intensive U.S. air campaign in December, and intelligence sources believed it was possible that bin Laden had been trapped in a cave destroyed by the bombing, military sources said. The main contingent of Operation Torii -- 372 Canadians and specialists from the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division, U.S. military intelligence and the FBI -- headed into the treacherous mountains 30 kilometers from Jalalabad three days ago after about 20 U.S. Special Forces had arrived for early reconnaissance.

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