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...biggest prize the CTC has captured since Sept. 11 has been Abu Zubaydah, bin Laden's chief of operations and recruiting. At the beginning of the year, the CTC formed a special Abu Zubaydah Task Force, manned with 100 covert operatives, CIA analysts, technicians and even agency rookies who had agreed to interrupt their spy training to mine data banks. Working around the clock for six weeks, sifting through thousands of agent reports, spy-satellite photos and signal intercepts, the task force finally pinpointed the 31-year-old Saudi-born Palestinian in a villa near Faisalabad, Pakistan. On the evening...
...Chicago gang to juvenile detention to grownup prison to a Florida fast-food job and, finally, to a new life as a Muslim in the Middle East. And there he was, somewhere in Pakistan just six months after the Sept. 11 attacks, allegedly presenting an ominous proposal to Abu Zubaydah, Osama bin Laden's operations chief...
...officials tell TIME that Padilla, conducting research on the Internet, had come across instructions for building a nuclear bomb--"an H-bomb," as a top official described it. The instructions were laughably inaccurate--more a parody than a plan--but not recognizing that, Padilla took them to Abu Zubaydah and other al-Qaeda planners and said he wanted to detonate such a weapon in the U.S. "He was trying to build something that would attain a nuclear yield," says a senior Bush Administration official monitoring Padilla's case. In response, Abu Zubaydah apparently cautioned his eager job applicant to think...
...secular, state-controlled brand of Islam taught in mainstream schools. He plunged into the extremist underground, where he was advised to study in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He moved to Pakistan, where, like many militants, he married the widow of a jihadist. Last year Padilla met with Abu Zubaydah for the first time, U.S. officials say. In spring of this year, he met with Abu Zubaydah again--and allegedly made his nuclear-bomb pitch...
...March Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan. A month later, he hinted to his FBI and CIA interrogators that he had talked to people who wanted to put together a dirty bomb, says a U.S. official. He provided no details, but agents started comparing intelligence as well as material from safe houses they had raided. Out popped Padilla's name, the official says. They then matched the name to a passport photo of Padilla and checked the identification with Abu Zubaydah, who confirmed it. The chase...