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...possibly even al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. U.S. intelligence believes he is hiding somewhere near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, 150 miles of which snake along Waziristan's frontier. Last week the Qatari TV network, al-Jazeera, aired a videotape of bin Laden walking with his lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri in rugged hills that look like those in much of the border area. Neither the video nor an accompanying audiotape of what the CIA says are probably bin Laden's and al-Zawahiri's voices contained any certain clue as to when they were recorded...
...Devour the Americans just like the lions devour their prey. Bury them in the Iraqi graveyard." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, featured on a videotape released days before the second anniversary of 9/11...
...might have involved suicide hijackings, but it is not known whether the captive was telling the truth and, if he was, when or where the plot would have taken place. And while it is unlikely that Hambali knows the precise coordinates of bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, there is a chance he has been in recent contact with them, perhaps via email, says Zachary Abuza, a terrorism expert at Simmons College in Boston. If Hambali cooperates, he could also help investigators unlock some mysteries of the 9/11 plot. The U.S. believes that he helped Zacarias Moussaoui...
...allies will likely continue to pick off key operatives, as in last week's rollup of the most al-Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian known as Hambali. They may even eventually net the movement's masterminds, such as Bin Laden himself and Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the virus is already out there, and it is mutating. It's a relative certainty that many of the men whose faces appear on the Qaeda scorecard President Bush keeps in his top drawer have had their responsibilities delegated to a wider group of middle managers not necessarily known to allied intelligence...
...Saudi Islamists may have recently crossed the border to join the battle in Iraq - a number that may actually grow as the Saudi authorities press their crackdown against domestic al-Qaeda sympathizers. (Many of the radicals who made their way to Afghanistan 30 years ago, such as Ayman al-Zawahiri and the other Egyptians in Bin Laden's inner circle, were also escaping a crackdown at home...