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...intelligence officials acknowledge that the U.S.'s success in dismantling bin Laden's organization has not lessened the threat of Islamic terrorism. Al-Qaeda has spawned a movement greater than itself. "Al-Qaeda has infected others with its ideology," CIA director George Tenet said recently. "Other extremist groups within the movement it influenced have become the next wave of the terrorist threat." That only makes them harder to find and stop. Even in hindsight, there was no electronic chatter, no rumor, nothing from interrogations hinting at an attack before the train bombers struck in Madrid. The amorphous nature...
Several approaches are being tried to bring bin Laden and his lieutenants to ground. Pounding suspected sites is one, dramatized by the Pakistanis last week. Another is covert manhunts conducted by units like Task Force 121, the group of U.S. commandos that aided the capture of Saddam Hussein last year and that has recently been deployed to Afghanistan. And, increasingly, the job of persuading locals to provide intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders is being carried out in remote outposts like Camp Blessing along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where small groups of U.S. special...
...hundreds or thousands of troops that are in the large encampments, there are only a dozen Green Berets from what is known as Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 936 and a smattering of Marines. But they are dangling far from safety to attract a big catch. "This is Osama bin Laden's backyard," says the team sergeant. "And part of the solution to tracking him is having guys like us out here in isolated areas...
...special-forces commanders recently gave TIME access to Camp Blessing, located in Nangalam in eastern Afghanistan. The camp is so secret that it doesn't even appear on U.S. military and embassy maps of bases in Afghanistan. Bin Laden reportedly was spotted within six miles of Nangalam a little more than a month ago. Villagers claim that a member of bin Laden's family wed a local girl farther up the Pesch River...
...reconstruction projects, ranging from new footbridges to schools and clinics. Villages that are neutral or friendly benefit from aid. Those that haven't given up weapons or that abet the insurgents receive none. "We're generating the goodwill that engenders willingness to offer up information," says Custer, "and if bin Laden shows up, then we're ready to react...