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...were worrying about a second wave of attacks. CIA Director George Tenet was briefing Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in the White House Situation Room on the agency's latest concern: intelligence reports suggesting that Osama bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had met with a radical Pakistani nuclear scientist around a campfire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Absorbing the possibility that al-Qaeda was trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, Cheney remarked that America had to deal with a new type of threat - what he called a "low-probability, high-impact event...
...Zawahiri called them off; he did not call them back. We have no reason to believe that they're not still here...
What's the leading theory about why al-Zawahiri called them...
...final months of his life, al-Zarqawi sought a different kind of legitimacy. In exclusive interviews with TIME, fighters from his inner circle said that al-Zarqawi wanted to be seen, like bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, as a religious authority as well as a military commander. He may also have been trying to project a more moderate image, mindful of the revulsion induced by his barbarism toward fellow Muslims. One jihadist contact says al-Zarqawi had a growing sense that he couldn't trust those around him. He took to mimicking the habits of the Prophet Muhammad recorded...
...word letter in Arabic dated July 9, 2005, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al- Qaeda's No. 2, tells al-Zarqawi that Iraq is ripe to provide popular support to Islamic militants. He also adivses al-Zarqawi to stop beheading hostages because it was unpopular with the Muslims. U.S. intelligence says that this provides a look into al-Qaeda strategy in Iraq...