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...wash" because the facts are still so fresh--to share information and discuss lessons learned. Perhaps the most important knowledge so far came during the U.S. operation in Tora Bora last December, when Afghan allies proved ineffective as a fighting force. Rumors persist that Afghan soldiers allowed Osama bin Laden to slip away into Pakistan, a claim that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied again last week. Whether bin Laden escaped over the snow-capped mountains or not, U.S. forces now know that while "air power can do a lot, nothing beats soldiers on the ground," says Marine Captain Jeff Pool...
...with personalizing details. However, those aren't details that viewers necessarily want; they feel al-Jazeera needn't go out of its way to humanize Israeli suffering, when, in their view, Palestinians receive no such treatment on American or Israeli TV and are instead demonized as terrorists akin to Osama bin Laden...
...Zubaydah, the strategist for al-Qaeda nabbed in Pakistan last month, may be taunting the American military and intelligence personnel who visit his hospital bed at a secret facility overseas. He told them Osama bin Laden's terror cells are targeting U.S. banks on the Eastern seaboard, but the Americans wonder if it's for real. "If he could screw with our heads," says a U.S. official, "he probably would." When the interrogators' report reached Washington last Wednesday, it triggered a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush Administration officials. There was plenty of skepticism...
This is how bad it was for terrorist-hunters before Sept. 11. After weeks of dangerous surveillance work along the Afghan border, Egyptian investigators finally tracked down their quarry, a close associate of Osama bin Laden named Ahmed al-Khadir who was wanted for bombing the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad in 1995, killing 15 people. The Egyptians had surrounded the safe house in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar where al-Khadir, an Egyptian Canadian, was hiding. All that remained was to notify Pakistan's then chief spymaster, General Mehmood Ahmed, so that his spooks could burst in to arrest...
...because his declared preference was for peace. It is thus not surprising that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, in his speech immediately after September 11, appealed to the example of the Treaty of Hudaybiyah in asking the Taliban to go through the humiliating (though morally just) exercise of giving up Osama Bin Laden, and asking the Pakistani public to support America’s claims upon the Afghan government...