A former American law enforcement official who has been involved in investigating bin Laden over much of the last decade said the search has narrowed to an area of 77km2 in the district of Maruf, about 160km east of Kandahar.
"Nobody wants him alive," the former official said. "The United States doesn't want him captured alive, his own people don't want him captured alive, and bin Laden himself decided long ago that he wouldn't be captured alive. He's a smart enough man to know that he has no options."
He said the US would not need bin Laden's body in order to claim victory, adding, "His silence will be enough."
The American radio messages about the reward, broadcast into Afghanistan by an airborne special operations forces radio station aboard an EC-130 aircraft code- named Commando Solo, began Sunday night.
They called on the people of Afghanistan to "drive out the foreign terrorists" and promised cash rewards for information on the location of bin Laden and eight other al-Qaeda leaders indicating that the US has gathered more information on the identities of al-Qaeda leaders still in Afghanistan than it has previously disclosed.
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