keywords: laden afp osama afghanistan outsourced
text: US commander Franks denies hunt for bin Laden was 'outsourced' (AFP) AFP - A former commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has denied a claim by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that US troop had  quot;oursourced quot; the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan's eastern border region of Tora Bora in the wake of the September 11 attacks.