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Confronted with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, an enemy that has no army, no fixed assets and no clearly defined territory, the Bush Administration needed an unconventional military force. It wanted combatants who could match al-Qaeda for wiliness, adaptability and, up to a point, ruthlessness. It wanted its own army of James Bonds. So in the past year, hundreds of millions of additional dollars have been pumped into the CIA budget by President George W. Bush, a man who may be predisposed to believe strongly in an agency his father once headed. He has ordered SOG operatives...
...second moment that some of them began to express a delight, either open or secret, that America had been humiliated and was now tasting the bitter medicine that many of our countries have been experiencing all these years. The third moment came when America said the culprits were bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and people wondered: How can America accuse without evidence? I left prison at that moment. I went back six months later to a moment of critical assessment and grudging admission that yes, it could have been Muslims who did it and that they shouldn't have...
...During the Tora Bora battle in December 2001, the U.S. relied mainly on Afghan forces to mop up after the air bombardment. But the surrogate soldiers, due to bribery and tribal ties, let Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda fighters slip away. American commanders didn't want to make the same mistake again. So, at Adhi Ghar, U.S. troops crept up the mountain, blasting rocket-propelled grenades into caves in pursuit of 40 rebels thought to have survived the first attack. It is not known whether Rahim was among them. The mop-up lasted through the weekend, and even...
...February of 1999 and Bill Carmody knew a recipe for disaster when he saw one. After losing a heated overtime contest at Lavietes Pavilion, the former Princeton coach’s postmortem focused on the veteran leadership of Harvard’s senior-laden squad...
...Find Osama bin Laden...