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...that day, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice called Bush with the bad news while he was in the shower. Experts were almost certain they were hearing the voice of bin Laden for the first time since U.S. agents thought they picked up a radio message from him in Tora Bora almost a year ago. When the President walked into his staff meeting the next morning, a staff member says, "he was very intense." After all, this is a President who keeps a copy of the faces of key al-Qaeda leaders in his desk and crosses them out as they...
...poll numbers look soft. "He's practically the only Democrat left standing in North Carolina," says a fund raiser who has considered backing Edwards in 2004. Edwards' Senate peer, Kerry, has fewer problems. He coasted to victory on Tuesday, and his criticism of last year's Tora Bora battle in Afghanistan, which failed to capture Osama bin Laden, and his credentials as a Vietnam War hero give him an edge. Kerry is a ferocious campaigner, and his wife Teresa Heinz is the widow of the late Senate Republican and Heinz ketchup heir John Heinz, giving Kerry access to a considerable...
...machine that can be easily replaced," says a Pentagon official. "If he's gone, it could lead to al-Qaeda crumbling." The Pentagon's best chance to nab bin Laden came last December, when he was thought to be cornered in the craggy valleys of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan. The American strategy was to enlist Afghan proxies to search the caves for bin Laden while U.S. warplanes pummeled possible sanctuaries from overhead. The scheme failed miserably. The Afghans were poorly trained and ill equipped and lacked their opponents' to-the-death fighting spirit. Officials with the U.S. military...
...FUKASAKU, 72, Japanese director whose 2000 hit Battle Royale, about a group of schoolchildren forced to fight each other to the death on a deserted island, turned heads with its macabre mix of nihilism and whimsy; with cancer; in Tokyo. Fukasaku, who co-directed the 1970 Pearl Harbor classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, plans to begin filming Battle Royale 2 in defiance of his doctor's orders...
...sending in 1,411 men to seal off the valley while its Afghan allies tracked down the enemy and destroyed what was thought to be the last al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. But this time, unlike the fight nearly three months before in Tora Bora, Americans would not rely on Afghans to supply the combat troops. Perez and most of the other members of Task Force Rakkasan had flown in from the Soviet-era air base at Bagram, an hour away. Intelligence reports at the base, just outside Kabul, had hinted that Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader...