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...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...
...special forces are reportedly operating freely in southern Afghanistan, engaging retreating Taliban and al Qaeda forces - and Washington had its best news of the campaign so far with the reported death of Bin Laden's Number 3, Mohammed Atef, in a bombing raid near Kabul. British and French forces have already entered Afghanistan too, to prepare for a role in peacekeeping and relief efforts...
Largely because of al-Zawahiri, the ranks of al-Qaeda are full of Egyptians, a development resented by some of bin Laden's old Saudi confederates. Early on, al-Zawahiri also installed at bin Laden's side his own faithful lieutenant, Mohamed Atef, who serves bin Laden as both a military commander and personal security chief. Al-Zawahiri has with him in Afghanistan his wife and their children. He has told an interviewer that they understand their stay there to be similar to the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira, or migration from Mecca to Medina...