This is 2 year old article....and I don't know if it is the same dude....but read the article.....look how it talks of AQ bases in that area.
P.S......Boot it is near the Kunar Province.....there is a neat little map at the bottom of the article.
There was a news report of 2 US Marines killed in Kunar Province of Afghanistan.....near where Mr. Rahman made his border crossing.
Osama's top lieutenant, Ayman Zawahiri, is now thought to be directing operations from Al Qaeda's newly built base in the village of Shah Salim, about 30 miles west of the Pakistani city of Chitral, near the border of Afghanistan's Kunar Province. The other base is in the Pakistani village of Murkushi on the Chinese border, about 90 miles north of the Pakistani city of Gilgit.
The area of Chitral appears again - this is right where Boothill has been showing us -