JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Accused terrorist Osama bin Laden lives in exile in Afghanistan. CNN's Nic Robertson is in the Afghan city of Kandahar with reaction to bin Laden's possible link to the USS Cole bombing. He filed this report by videophone.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There is a certain amount of apprehension here in Afghanistan. People here remember very clearly what happened two years ago when Osama Bin Laden was implicated as being responsible for the bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Then cruise missiles were fired against Afghanistan. People here are apprehensive that should the finger of blame point in his direction or point generally in the direction of Afghanistan that could happen again. International diplomats here in Kandahar say they know that the feeling amongst the people here would be much stronger if there were attacks. They say that it would likely mean there would be an outpouring of emotion on the street. And certainly they feel that that would be against foreign nationals here, United Nations and other aid workers that are in Afghanistan hoping to deliver food. Of course, this country is still at war and still very much needs that international help. Those are the people they think would be targeted. They do also say, these diplomats also say that they feel that another attack by America on Afghanistan would really compound the problem. They say that this would just make more people who would want to go out and perpetrate terrorist acts against the United States. So people here very much watching the United States' investigation of what happened to the USS Cole, watching to see exactly who is implicated. Watching, of course, the implications for them.
Osama bin Laden Presence in Afghanistan Could Expose Country to U.S. Attack