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Tenet brought four strangers into the Situation Room from CIA headquarters that morning. They stood quietly in the back of the room, almost unseen. One was the head of the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center; two others had been covert operatives during the guerrilla war against the Soviets in the 1980s. They had owned whole parts of Afghanistan then. And they had come to the White House to tell the President that they could own Afghanistan again...
...occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Strong U.S. support for Israeli action against the PA without concomitant pressure on Sharon for a return to the peace process is perceived in the Arab world as one-sided. And, most of the funding for Hamas, which maintains both a covert and deadly terrorist arm and a large education-and-welfare organization, comes from U.S.-aligned Gulf states...
...raise hell. But what was perhaps not as predictable is that protest would come from a conservative stalwart like Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. Earlier this month he joined Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont in writing a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft to express concern over the covert roundup of mostly immigrants suspected of being connected to the terrorist attacks. Since then, Leahy has repeatedly asked the Attorney General to release the number and names of detainees...
...more immediate priority in the wake of the Afghanistan campaign, however, will be to destroy any sanctuaries to which Al Qaeda's core might flee. While the terror network is said to operate in 50 or 60 countries, its presence in most of these is small and covert. The organization's long-term future requires that it replace Afghanistan as a sanctuary in which it can function independently and unmolested to cultivate a new generation of professional terrorists. Those requirements considerably narrow the list - even if Iraq were to offer, accepting Saddam's hospitality would totally destroy Al Qaeda...
Humiliated by the attack on Sept. 11, the CIA is throwing everything it has at Osama bin Laden's network, which spans more than 50 countries overseas. The agency's Counter-Terrorism Center in Langley, Va., has ballooned to 800 analysts, technicians and covert operatives, double what it was before the attack. Nearby conference rooms and snack bars have been commandeered for workstations. A financial team is feeding bank-transfer intelligence to Operation Green Quest, a Treasury Department program to block bin Laden's cash flow. Agency scientists are also using antiterror gizmos like OASIS, a computer that scans thousands...