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...consumes acres of space in the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters, with computers whirring, phones jangling and TV sets turned on 24 hours a day, not only to CNN-the favorite in military command centers-but also to al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV network that's usually the first to broadcast videos from Osama bin Laden. The warren of offices and cubicles that make up its main section has grown so large that street signs named after terror purveyors have been erected to guide newcomers. The intersection that draws the most smiles is Saddam Street and Usama Bin Lane...
...attack. CIA scientists are investigating exotic supercomputer programs and artificial intelligence that might help analysts link hundreds of thousands of names, places and bank accounts. Teams have even been sent to pick the brains of Hollywood scriptwriters who dream up far-fetched terror spectaculars. When the analysts return to Langley, they comb their databases to see if al-Qaeda has the capability to carry out such attacks. The CIA has found evidence in seized al-Qaeda documents that bin Laden's operatives watch action-adventure movies for ideas...
...month's vacation on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 4, that mood had changed. Where the President goes, the responsibilities of office follow, and so, each morning, Bush sat in the ranch office and received the CIA's Presidential Daily Brief. The brief--or PDB, in Langley-speak--is the CIA's chance to mainline its priorities into the President's thinking. Each day, the PDB is winnowed to a few pages; when the President is in Washington, one of two "briefers"--agency up-and-comers who flesh out the written text--gets to work...
...plan--masterminded by Ramzi Yousef, who had also plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--for mass hijackings of American planes over the Pacific. Evidence developed during the investigation of Yousef and his partner, Abdul Hakim Murad, uncovered a plan to crash a plane into CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. And as long ago as 1994, in an incident that is well known among terrorism experts, French authorities foiled a plot by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group to fly an airliner into the Eiffel Tower. "Since 1994," says a French investigator into al-Qaeda cases, "we should all have been...
Humiliated by the attack on Sept. 11, the CIA is throwing everything it has at Osama bin Laden's network, which spans more than 50 countries overseas. The agency's Counter-Terrorism Center in Langley, Va., has ballooned to 800 analysts, technicians and covert operatives, double what it was before the attack. Nearby conference rooms and snack bars have been commandeered for workstations. A financial team is feeding bank-transfer intelligence to Operation Green Quest, a Treasury Department program to block bin Laden's cash flow. Agency scientists are also using antiterror gizmos like OASIS, a computer that scans thousands...