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...forces are seeking to undertake another raid inside Pakistan, sources in Islamabad tell TIME, like the one that captured Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, Abu Zubaydah, two weeks ago. This time, however, they are after bigger quarry: bin Laden himself. Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca, the sources say, was in Islamabad last month to ask Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for permission to make the raid on Pakistan's mountainous border with Afghanistan. But Musharraf has still not given his consent. He is hesitant, the sources say, because the fierce tribes of the region are well armed and sympathetic...
After three months in which the hunt for bin Laden has looked nearly hopeless, U.S. authorities now seem convinced that their top terror suspect is hiding in the lawless borderland territory. That conviction may have been bolstered by a cache of documents and computer discs found in Abu Zubaydah's lair in central Pakistan. If intelligence from the Abu Zubaydah raid has added to the U.S. evidence that bin Laden is hiding in the borderlands, Musharraf's decision may get tougher yet. --By Tim McGirk
...other hand, while Zubaydah had made vague allusions to other potential attacks against the West, his only specific reference was a threat to banks in the Northeastern U.S. And the notion of attacking banks was bolstered, says an official, by "cryptic references to banks" gleaned by U.S. intelligence from separate, highly sensitive sources focused on Al Qaeda networks. Also, on Wednesday, April 17, the Middle East Broadcast Corp. broadcast a new videotape of Osama Bin Laden in which he gloated over the damage done to the U.S. stock market and economy by the September 11 attacks...
...This may not be the last scramble Abu Zubaydah sets in motion. He is said to be recovering nicely from multiple gunshot wounds, suffered as he tried to escape a strike force of Pakistani security officers, supported by FBI and CIA personnel who had tracked him to Faisalabad in central Pakistan...
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