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...when or where or by what method” bin Laden will attack the U.S. As many as three years before Sept. 11, Tenet recruited 30 Afghan agents (the Seniors) to trail bin Laden throughout Afghanistan. They succeeded, but lacked the legal authorization to take lethal action against him. After 9/11, agents deployed by Tenet’s CIA used $70 million (in cash) to buy allegiance and cooperation from Northern Alliance and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. This initiative was perhaps the most successful of the U.S. campaign: it mobilized Afghan resistance against the Taliban at a relatively low cost...
...WORLD, Nov. 11]. For the sake of the hostages, the Russian authorities should have kept talking to the Chechen rebels, to the point of agreeing to their demands, even if promises would later be broken. Putin should never have decided to take the drastic step of using a potentially lethal gas and risking so many innocent lives. He should not still be in office. I fail to understand how anyone could congratulate Putin for his heartless decision. MARGARITA HOLT SAUVALLE Valencia, Spain...
...LAIRCM automatically detects, tracks and jams infrared missiles, sending a high-intensity laser beam into the missile's seeker, disrupting its guidance system. No action is required by the crew. The pilot simply is informed that a threat missile was detected and jammed. "Inexpensive, yet lethal, surface-to-air missiles have proliferated around the globe and unfortunately are in the hands of our potential adversaries," says Arnold Welch, vice president for Infrared Countermeasures Programs at Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. "It is essential that our military pilots and air crews have this sophisticated type...
EXECUTED. MIR AIMAL KASI, 38, Pakistani extremist convicted of the 1993 murders of two CIA employees near its headquarters in McLean, Va., in a move that sparked fear among some U.S. officials of terrorist reprisals; by lethal injection; in Jarratt, Va. He went to death chanting, "There is no god but Allah...
...Islamic group known as the Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the third-biggest faction in Parliament. An example of what's in store for Musharraf?and Washington?occurred last week when MMA chiefs started the parliamentary session with a prayer for Mir Aimal Kasi, who was executed by lethal injection in Virginia on Nov. 14 for assassinating two CIA agents...