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Which is closer to dying: Osama bin Laden or the CIA's effort to catch him? Nothing has characterized the fruitlessness of the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader so much as the recurrent - and mostly inaccurate - reports that he is seriously ailing, or even at death's door. In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, and that he had required a dialysis machine when he lived in Afghanistan. That same year, the FBI's top counterterrorism official, Dale Watson, said, "I personally think he is probably not with us anymore." Since then, of course...
...Malaysian, helped wire the bombs, installing four separate failsafe detonation switches for the giant car bomb. The prisoners said JI instructor Umar Patek packed the bomb's sacks of potassium chlorate and aluminum powder, while the teacher, Noordin Mohammed Top, was involved in logistics and strategy with the al-Qaeda go-between Hambali. The four men's faces have appeared on widely distributed wanted posters and on the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice website; $10 million is offered for Dulmatin and $1 million for Patek. But for nearly six years the fugitives have defied high-tech surveillance wizardry...
...about the fourth fugitive, Zulkarnaen. Dubbed "the grandfather" by the Indonesian media because of his seniority, the 44-year-old has virtually vanished and does not appear to be linked to any recent terror plots, says Jones. Although the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center lists Zulkarnaen as one of al-Qaeda's "point men" in Southeast Asia, Jones doubts he is active in the JI leadership. "What's striking is that he doesn't come up in conversations or interrogations. It's as though he is a non-person...
...insistence.) Although aspects of their story are impossible to verify, important details tally with the version of events provided by Iraqi officials in Anbar and by the U.S. military. Sadiya and Shafiqa also allowed TIME to view but not record two video CDS given them by an al-Qaeda fighter. One is Hasna's last statement; the other is a recording of her suicide mission. The picture that emerges is of a once strong woman driven mad with sorrow after the death of her brother Thamer, who in the fall of 2003 joined an insurgent group linked to al-Qaeda...
...force, and began aggressively patrolling the streets, in conjunction with the U.S. military, to rid the city of its criminal militias. Inevitably, he found himself accused of bias by the Mahdi Army and its media, which accused him of being an agent, alternately, of the U.S., Israel and al-Qaeda. Death threats soon followed, and his fiancee's family's home was robbed...