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...where is he? The U.S. has followed leads putting him in a wide variety of places in the Islamic world, from Yemen to Saudi Arabia to Iran. But the trail went cold at the Afghan border with Pakistan in December 2001, when a voice believed to be his was last overheard in Tora Bora. Senior Bush aides admit privately that the month it took to build up forces for the invasion of Afghanistan gave bin Laden and his senior leaders plenty of time to carry out evacuation plans. The military is a lot less keen to confess that it blew...
...Spot him with a Predator drone and drop a precision-guided weapon on him. Fast, cheap, simple. It worked in Yemen on Nov. 3, when a drone's missile obliterated a car carrying a former bin Laden bodyguard and five other al-Qaeda operatives. But an air strike inside Pakistan would require more cooperation from President Pervez Musharraf than the U.S. has. Pakistan only reluctantly agreed to allow the U.S. to use its airspace and bases to stage the Afghan invasion; it would balk at Predator drones flying all over the country...
...decade and eventually as a rendezvous for both regional and global militant conclaves organized by JI. Most notorious was the January 2000 meeting attended by up to 12 key JI and al-Qaeda figures, including Tawfiq bin Atash, top suspect in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in October 2000, two of the Pentagon hijackers, another key al-Qaeda figure Ramzi Binalshibh?who was captured in Karachi on Sept. 11 this year?and, of course, Hambali himself...
...State Department program to supply its overseas stations with safety garb. And security agencies in Australia conducted practice drills to rehearse their response to a chemical, biological or radiological strike. One Islamist website warned that an attack would come Friday, but the day passed without incident. YEMEN Another Big Al-Qaeda Catch In Yemen The political calculation: the Bush Administration wanted everyone to know it had nabbed an al-Qaeda big. The security calculation: it didn't want anyone to know who the person was, while it "tickled the wires" - tried to provoke the terrorists into communications and movement that...
...operated by the CIA, flew from Djibouti, the new home of the U.S. military command--Joint Task Force Horn of Africa--charged with hunting terrorists in the region. The armed version of the Predator had proved itself in the war in Afghanistan last year, but the attack in Yemen marked the first known use of the drone to kill a terrorist leader outside an acknowledged field of combat--a tactic human-rights advocates liken to assassination. The strike owed its success to a tip from Yemeni authorities on the whereabouts of al-Harethi, and U.S. officials say Yemen gave...