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There's a mischievous story doing the rounds in Kabul about why the Americans can't find Osama bin Laden. The whisper among embassy staff and aid workers over whisky at the U.N. club is that the key obstacle is Afghanistan's lauded interim leader, Hamid Karzai. Karzai knows the Americans will leave as soon as they get their man. He also knows his own position?and almost all hope for preventing a civil war between the country's warlords?depends on their staying. So Karzai has Osama bin Laden under lock and key in the presidential palace...
...embassy in Beirut. Shortly after, al-Qaeda terrorists bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, leaving 258 people dead and more than 5,000 injured. What was Clinton’s response? He blew up a pharmaceutical facility in the Sudan that he claimed was financed by Osama bin Laden. Later, serious doubts were raised about whether the facility was actually involved in terrorist activities, and more importantly, whether the U.S. was making progress combating terrorism at all. The Sudanese bombings certainly did not impede terrorist networks abroad from hatching their plots against Americans...
When the Bush administration was warned after Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden might have some type of nuclear device, it knew where to turn for help: the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, a secretive unit within the Department of Energy. Last January the Administration quietly ordered NEST to launch periodic searches for a "dirty bomb" in Washington and other large U.S. cities. Administration officials tell TIME that the NEST teams aren't dispatched to urban areas because of any specific threat received. Instead, almost every week the FBI randomly selects several cities for visits by NEST, which comprises some...
...Noted "I truly am not that concerned about him." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on missing al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the man Bush announced six months ago he wanted "dead or alive...
...that concern over their own stability that has Arab governments opposing action against Iraq, even though most of them would like to see Saddam Hussein dead. Arab officials complain that the U.S. lacks a viable plan for unseating Saddam. Six months into the Afghan campaign, Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar are still on the loose, and that inspires little confidence in U.S. promises that a war against Saddam's considerably more powerful regime would be over in a heartbeat. Arab officials fear that a protracted military campaign would spark dangerous street unrest in their own streets. They also fear...