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SENTENCED. ABD AL-RAHIM AL-NASHIRI and jamal al-badawi; to death, by firing squad; for the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; in Sana'a, Yemen. The Saudi-born al-Nashiri, considered an associate of Osama bin Laden's and the mastermind of the Cole attack, has been in CIA custody outside the U.S. since 2002 and was tried by the Yemenis in absentia...
...inevitable that Democratic challenger John Kerry would sling out the questions during the debate: Where in the world is Osama bin Laden, and why hasn't the U.S. captured...
America's closest allies in the hunt seem unenthusiastic. Nearly three years after closing in on bin Laden and losing him in the Tora Bora mountains, Pakistani and Afghan intelligence officials claim that the trail is cold. The last credible sighting of the gaunt terrorist in chief was more than a year ago along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, according to a senior Pakistani intelligence official. "He is quiet," adds the Islamabad official. Says an Afghan official in Kabul who works closely with the U.S. search team: "There's nothing here to go after. Bin Laden's fallen off the radar...
...officials refuse to comment on bin Laden intelligence, but they have long believed he is in the mountainous, lawless Pakistani border region of Waziristan. Terrorism experts say that rather than risk satellite-phone communication that can be pinpointed by U.S. eavesdroppers, bin Laden relies on a string of runners to carry his notes or recordings from his redoubts. Those audiotapes and videotapes reach news agencies in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar or the capital, Islamabad, strengthening the U.S. view that he's in Pakistan. Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's second-in-command, also believed...
...seven-month-long Pakistani offensive designed to flush bin Laden from Waziristan has come up empty. The Pakistanis say bin Laden is hiding in Afghanistan, while the Afghans agree with the Americans that he's on the Pakistan side. Says Lieut. General David Barno, U.S. commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan: "They probably feel more protected by their foreign fighters in remote areas inside Pakistan...