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...biggest name stricken so far is Mohammed Atef, the al-Qaeda military-operations chief suspected of planning the Sept. 11 attacks, who was killed in a mid-November air strike. Two other high-ranking al-Qaeda lieutenants, Egyptians Fahmi Nasr (also known as Mohammed Salah) and Tariq Anwar, senior leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, have also been marked KIA. The top commander of an al-Qaeda ally, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, has reportedly been eliminated as well. But in some ways, Pentagon officials are even more eager to interrogate those taken alive. Defense Department officers have heard that Taliban...
...Islamist group called Al Itihad al Islamiya that may have established links with Al Qaeda in the early 1990s. U.S. officials also cite allegations that some of the Somali fighters that killed 18 U.S. Army Rangers in Mogadishu in 1993 may have been trained by bin Laden lieutenant Mohammed Atef. Atef had been an Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader before becoming Al Qaeda's operational chief and allegedly helping mastermind the September 11 attacks. He was reportedly killed two weeks ago during a U.S. bombing raid in Afghanistan...
...closing in, he was said to be moving nightly among caves in the honeycombed mountains stretching from Jalalabad to the northern half of the Uruzgan province. American F-15Es, unmanned Predator drones and commando ground troops killed scores of Taliban and al-Qaeda lieutenants, including bin Laden deputy Mohammed Atef, the reputed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks...
...reports on the whereabouts of key Taliban and al-Qaeda figures, the Pentagon began attacking buildings in Kabul and Kandahar in which they were believed to be hiding. At least one strike nailed its target: on Friday, Rumsfeld said he had seen "authoritative reports" that the U.S. had killed Atef, al-Qaeda's military chief. Atef had intimate ties to bin Laden through his daughter's marriage to bin Laden's son and was seen as the cold-blooded strategist charged with carrying out bin Laden's deadly visions. As the mastermind of the ambush of the Army Rangers...
...That's why the American targeting of Atef also served to deliver a pointed message to his boss. As American commandos did in northern Afghanistan, U.S. special ops in the south provided Pashtun tribes with advice, ammunition and weapons. But the immediate goal was to divine bin Laden's location with enough precision for the U.S. to deploy its forces?either technological or human, in the air or down into a cave?to deliver the final blow. All week American troops manned checkpoints on the roads running through former Taliban country, seeking clues to bin Laden's coordinates. Special...