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...Osama bin Laden hiding out in the Tora Bora mountains when the U.S. bombed the cave complex last December? Yes, say "sources close to the al-Qaeda leader" - he even supposedly suffered a shrapnel wound to the shoulder during the bombing. And U.S. officials certainly believed at the time that radio communications among the al-Qaeda men defending the caves pointed to bin Laden's presence. But senior Pakistani intelligence sources tell TIME that reports of his presence in the area during the bombing were part of an elaborate hoax designed camouflage bin Laden's real whereabouts...
While it wasn't immediately clear who killed Abdul Qadir, he had lived a controversial life and left a long list of enemies. In 1996 he welcomed Osama bin Laden to the region and gave him refuge in the opium-rich area around Jalalabad. Some of Qadir's rivals say he took $10 million to give up Jalalabad to the Taliban. When the Taliban fell, he reclaimed the governorship and, as part of the "new" Afghanistan, helped lead a heavy-handed crackdown on narcotics...
...corporate criminals among us, the swindlers and profiteers, are now described in language once saved for bin Laden's legions. Business professors are staggered by the suicidal audacity of top executives-did they really think they would not be caught?-and marvel at the damage done. "It's as if we have given the CEOs weapons of mass destruction-at least economically," says accounting professor Brian Shapiro at the University of Minnesota. "The companies they run are bigger than ever. When something happens, thousands can lose their jobs-and more people than ever are invested in them...
...enemy who hits and runs and can't be found? Or does the threat become a blessing, keeping people united against a common danger and forgiving of leaders who face challenges greater than figuring out how stock-option grants should be handled on balance sheets? "If they find Osama bin Laden's body," says a Republican close to the White House, "that'll push everyone back 10 to 15 feet." And if they don't, Bush can still argue that there are far more dangerous enemies out there than the sharks in our own seas...
...impressed that my Spanish teacher had heard about the time Cheney—on behalf of the oil company Halliburton—held secret discussions with the Taliban about running an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. She also knew that the CIA had trained many of the Taliban and supported bin Laden in the past...