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There’s been an awful lot of bad news recently. The war in Afghanistan isn’t going particularly well, the FBI has no idea who’s sending us anthrax, and every few weeks there’s the rumor of another opus by bin Laden & Co. We live in a scarier world now, and it’s becoming clear that we can’t go back. We can’t build a wall or hire more Homeland Security police and hope the problem will go away...
...allow society to function—the trust that a stranger is not trying to kill us whenever we board an airplane or open our mail. We can improve our airport security and watch our toxic waste trucks, but we can never think hard enough to imagine everything a bin Laden could imagine—like attacking the Pentagon with boxcutters. And no matter how many armed guards we post, they only work against someone who’s afraid of getting shot...
...however, will be a long one and it?s already met with setbacks. Bin Laden trained 11,000 men at his Afghan camps, most of who have fanned out to other countries. Cooperation is uneven among foreign intelligence services and the agency hasn?t had much luck in the past in draining bin Laden?s bank accounts. Many of the 300 detained overseas are innocents swept up in dragnets. CIA agents have been roaming southern and eastern Afghanistan with bags full cash, trying to entice Pashtun warlords to turn against the Taliban. But the agents have had limited success, according...
...also be dirty work. Since the start of the air war, CIA-operated Predator drones, armed with Hellfire missiles, have been flying over Afghanistan to try to pick off bin Laden or Taliban leaders. Restrictions on recruiting unsavory informants have been loosened. CIA officers have met privately with old foes in the Syrian and Libyan intelligence services to see if they can provide clues to al Qaeda hideouts. Agency operatives have even been trying to penetrate the Russian mafia for leads on chemical or biological agents bin Laden may have been trying to buy from...
...world, complete with infiltration routes, drop zones, intelligence contacts and assault points. About 20 Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs and military counter-terror operatives have already been dispatched to the Philippines to advise its army in guerrilla warfare against the Abu Sayyef group, which has ties to bin Laden...