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Seeing Osama bin Laden chuckling ghoulishly over his "achievement" on September 11 reminded most Americans why they want him dead. And many had been expecting the battle of Tora Bora to produce his body. But al-Qaeda's last Afghan redoubt has fallen and bin Laden's whereabouts, in Pentagon parlance, are "anyone's guess." Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz found himself playing damage control Tuesday, reminding the nation that the war on terrorism is about far more than...
...leaflets dropped all over Afghanistan offering a $25 million reward for his capture and Pentagon updates over his likely whereabouts to the White House releasing last week's tape to convince the Arab world of his guilt on what many anticipated was the eve of his demise at Tora Bora...
...nation's morale - witness Saddam Hussein still cropping up on Washington's to-do list a decade after the U.S. marshalled a half million allied troops to confront him in Kuwait. Sure, bin Laden may yet turn up among the corpses or the stragglers of Tora Bora. But if he doesn't, he will have scored a significant short-term propaganda victory and created some major political headaches for Washington...
...With the competing loyalties of the men venturing into Tora Bora, the cave assault has been halting. The first team of soldiers dispatched by Ali to Tora Bora disarmed groups of Zaman loyalists opposed to al-Qaeda. Another group of Zaman's forces tried to set up a base in the town of Pachir, within sight of Tora Bora; the next night a U.S. warplane struck the building, killing everyone inside. The commanders greeted reports of limited advances in the mountains with tempered enthusiasm, mindful of the difficulty of penetrating such a labyrinthine redoubt...
...Though the American commanders still counseled patience last week, they will not put up with inaction for long. Afghan forces told TIME they spotted U.S. and British commandos heading into the Tora Bora mountains last week, traveling in pairs, shouldering heavy supplies and carrying rifles. There were more soldiers on the way, backed by U.S. gunships, bombers and Predator drones, ready to pounce on their prey. It's a safe bet that if bin Laden is holed up in the snowdrifts of Tora Bora, with his hosts defeated and on the run, he still harbors hopes of making a great...