Anti-Taliban Afghan fighter, covered with dust and carrying a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, rides on a truck to the battlefield in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan, December 16, 2001. Hundreds of al Qaeda fighters have battled to the death in a last stand in eastern Afghanistan but their leader Osama bin Laden still eludes the U.S. dragnet, Afghan commanders said on Sunday. REUTERS/Erik de Castro