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...After weeks of fast triumphs, the war has drifted into a frustrating endgame, a double manhunt for Omar and Osama. Every day seems to bring a new theory about bin Laden's whereabouts. Is he dead in a Tora Bora cave? Hiding out along one side or the other of the Afghan border with Pakistan? Safe in Chechnya, Iran or even Saudi Arabia? The Pentagon has tabled plans to send additional U.S. troops to hunt in the mountains of Tora Bora. And there was never a chance that Pakistan would want the U.S. to deploy the troops necessary to seal...
...many Afghans allied with the U.S., it seems that the fighting should be over. With the Taliban routed, their war aims have been accomplished. But the U.S. has a major goal still unsatisfied-to get Omar and bin Laden. To understand where the war is headed as American and Afghan paths diverge, a few questions are in order...
...Where is Osama? We don't know where bin Laden is," says Army General Tommy Franks, chief of U.S. Central Command. "We've been pretty honest about that. We've said he is either dead or alive, and he is either inside Afghanistan or he isn't." While some leaders of the new Afghan government believe bin Laden is hiding with Omar near Baghran, American officials are skeptical. They believe that if he survived the bombing of the Tora Bora caves, he is most likely to be in hiding on one side or the other of the Afghan border with...
...White House is convinced that Pakistan's military is dead serious about finding bin Laden and can be counted on to turn him over to U.S. authorities if he is captured. As many as 60,000 Pakistani troops have been deployed at border checkpoints, partly to take the place of border police who might be more susceptible to bribes. Moinuddin Haider, Pakistan's Interior Minister, says the border patrols have so far detained 245 foreigners, mostly Saudis and Yemenis, who are being held in high-security prisons in and near the frontier town of Kohat. "We are well geared...
...Bush Administration has no plans to deploy U.S. special-operations forces or cia paramilitary teams to hunt for him. In the White House view, Pakistan's army and intelligence service are far better suited to the task. "They know their own turf," says a U.S. intelligence official. If bin Laden is in Pakistan, he adds, "it would be much preferable that he be captured or killed by local authorities than...