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...Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from Tora Bora Anthrax: Where the Investigation Stands TIME/CNN POLL: Americans Standing By Bush's War More Stories...
...alive) for the military victory to be complete. There are positive signs: U.S. intelligence believes that senior al-Qaeda operatives posing as foot soldiers are sprinkled among the some 1,000 prisoners controlled by anti-Taliban forces. American commandos and Afghan fighters are still rooting through the caves of Tora Bora; they've checked more than a hundred so far. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has promised the White House his forces are watching the border with Afghanistan - and will turn bin Laden over to the U.S. if he's caught...
...still several hundred more caves to be checked, and even in those that have been searched, U.S. commandos can't be sure that they've covered every entrance or exit. Spotting bin Laden, if he tries to cross the border into Pakistan, may be difficult. In one part of Tora Bora alone, a U.S. intelligence source tells me, there are some 240 roads and trails leading to Pakistan. "It's going to be a while before we find him," this source predicts...
...Unless bin Laden turns up in the next couple of days in the Tora Bora area, the likelihood is that the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan will begin winding down without having delivered a number of the most prized leaders in the enemy camp. Pursuit of the world's most-wanted terrorists will become, once more, an intelligence-and-police operation. President Bush insists they'll be brought to justice, but many Americans had expected to see the moment come before Christmas. Despite America's dramatic successes - destroying the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda's infrastructure, killing hundreds...