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...Osama bin Laden--the alleged mastermind of attacks on two U.S. embassies--has been in hiding since the U.S. launched missiles against his bases in Afghanistan last August. Yet on Dec. 22, the summons suddenly came: Would Rahimullah Yusufzai, who reports for the News of Pakistan, as well as TIME and ABC, like to interview Bin Laden? After a car trip through the Afghan desert (and getting stuck in the sand three times), Yusufzai arrived at an encampment of three tents. Polite and given to praising God in nearly every sentence, Bin Laden sipped water from...
...assassination attempt comes amid rising tensions in the poverty-stricken country. On Monday, Sunni Muslim extremists killed 14 people in an attack on a Shi'ite mosque. And with Nawaz the target of fierce criticims from groups as diverse as supporters of Osama Bin Laden and the country's Christian minority alarmed at the government's adoption of Islamic law, Pakistan is starting to look like a time bomb--attached to the side of a nuclear device...
...Bombings of U.S. embassies in these two countries were blamed on Osama bin Laden...
Washington remains sure that bin Laden will strike back. And when he draws blood again, all the past covert operations will be deemed failures because they did not prevent the latest attack. In the calculus of terrorism, the last side to show its fangs becomes the victor for the moment. "The game is tilted in Osama's favor until he's gone," admits a White House aide. "That's the problem we face." If so, this may be a war--for now--without...
DOUG WALLER AND ELAINE SHANNON, two correspondents based in Washington, report this week on the CIA's and FBI's mostly clandestine campaign to thwart terrorist attacks backed by Osama bin Laden. "Obviously, these things are difficult to uncover because so much is done out of public view," says Waller, who has spent a decade tracking foreign policy. Says Shannon, who has covered law enforcement for 20 years: "This story is the result of spending a long time cultivating sources and breaking through walls of secrecy...