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...have ever spent much time in the American Southwest, particularly the mesa-speckled border between New Mexico and Arizona, land which sits at roughly the same latitude as Afghanistan, you will have a sense of the terrain where the U.S. is now furiously searching for Osama bin Laden. The hills around Kabul, an area where bin Laden may be hiding, sit at nearly the same latitude as Phoenix, Ariz., though Kabul's elevation makes it colder, clearer and more exhausting to visit. At night this time of year, temperatures can fall into the 30s. During the day, the clear skies...
...Bin Laden has many advantages operating in his favor as he tries to elude an American dragnet now spreading itself on the ground around and the skies above him. Sources tell TIME that U.S. special forces have been moving in and out of Afghanistan for three years now looking for bin Laden. Recently, the activity has been stepped up. But they face the challenge of capturing a man who knows the terrain, has dozens of hideouts and is surrounded by loyal followers. It takes five years of training to make a Delta Force operative, and of all the tactical missions...
During the past two weeks, military and intelligence sources tell TIME, the U.S. has ratcheted up its commandos' role inside Afghanistan, hunting both for bin Laden and for information that will aid an explosive strike against al-Qaeda, his terror network. Inserted deep into the mountainous terrain, the teams have been working various parts of the country, usually at night. A handful of pilotless drone airplanes backs them up, working the skies over the country, looking for hints--a small convoy kicking up dust, for example--of bin Laden or his allies. And though most of the fighters...
...officials know that simply "decapitating" al-Qaeda by taking out bin Laden won't solve their terror problem. The very nature of the web he has built, and part of what makes it so confounding to U.S. officials, is that there is no clear chain of command. Bin Laden, U.S. intelligence believes, has several deputies who are perfectly capable of running terror operations without him. There is even a chance that bin Laden may not even be in Afghanistan anymore--speculation has put him everywhere from the hills of Uzbekistan to the deserts of Sudan. And if the White House...
There are of course other--easier--ways to clean out the "roaches," and for these the U.S. grasped last week. The simplest scenario would be if the Taliban agreed to hand over bin Laden. U.S. diplomats have been careful to leave the Kabul government some ways to save face, insisting carefully, for example, that bin Laden be turned in to "appropriate authorities," which gives the Taliban a chance to surrender bin Laden to an Islamic state instead of to the U.S. Nearly every "last chance" offered to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, though, has been met with a denunciation...