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This war will not be for the fainthearted. Sources tell TIME that the Administration is considering altering the ban on assassinating enemies of the U.S., adopted 25 years ago. Bin Laden, the Administration believes, is not covered by the ban; as one who has waged an act of war against the U.S., he is considered fair game in any military operation. But a change in policy might help the fight against other leaders of international terrorism. Guns and bombs, however, are not the whole story. "We should not overemphasize the military part of this," says a senior White House adviser...
...mistake, at a time when the U.S. needs to be sensitive to its Muslim citizens and friends in Islamic countries, to cast the nation's task as a "crusade"; it was crass for Bush to adopt the attitude of a frontier sheriff and say he wanted bin Laden captured "dead or alive." "Sometimes he can be too plainspoken," says an adviser. "But when you net it all out, people like someone when he tells it like...
...council"--and then continued their discussions in Washington. At the heart of the debates were two linked questions: Who was responsible for the atrocities on Sept. 11? And what immediate actions can and should be taken against those so identified? The Administration insists the attacks were the work of bin Laden's network. "The evidence we have gathered," said Bush before Congress, "all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al-Qaeda." But when dealing with a cellular organization, proving hard evidentiary links between different operatives is like trying to build a garden wall...
...Administration pours cold water on any other theory. Relying on intelligence intercepts of bin Laden's known associates discussing the hijackings, and on links between some of the suicide squad and elements of al-Qaeda, it continues to finger bin Laden. British intelligence too is convinced that al-Qaeda is responsible: "The evidence is pretty good, better than circumstantial," says a British source. For Powell, all of this has meant that policy on retaliation should proceed in a step-by-step approach, focusing first on bin Laden and the Taliban...
...Afghanistan," says an Air Force planner, "and we want every bomb to count." A huge bombing campaign, says another officer, "would be more for show than effect." Instead, planners hope that a sustained campaign will cripple the al-Qaeda camps and--if the forces are lucky--smoke out bin Laden so that someone...