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...MANUEL NORIEGA Panama The former strongman is serving a 30-year jail sentence in Miami on drug and racketeering charges. He has done 10 years and could be released...
...Sudan. And if the White House has little choice but to go after bin Laden, it also knows that the chances of finding him are not great. Says one former U.S. counterintelligence official: "The entire U.S. Army was in Panama, and it was really hard to find Manuel Noriega. The U.S. Army knew Panama really well. Even if you have troops on the ground, you need to have spectacularly good intelligence and know exactly where you are going. You have to be vectored right on to the viper's nest. You go in there and shoot it up and look...
...Sudan. And if the White House has little choice but to go after bin Laden, it also knows that the chances of finding him are not great. Says one former U.S. counterintelligence official: "The entire U.S. Army was in Panama, and it was really hard to find Manuel Noriega. The U.S. Army knew Panama really well. Even if you have troops on the ground, you need to have spectacularly good intelligence and know exactly where you are going. You have to be vectored right on to the viper's nest. You go in there and shoot it up and look...
Getting boots to the right place is easier said than done. For one thing, such an operation doesn't play to the strengths of the U.S. military; 12 years ago, it took 24,000 troops 14 days to find Manuel Noriega in the relatively benign environment of Panama. "We're good at hitting big, immovable things," says an Air Force general. "We don't do so well when they move around and they're small." Both are true of bin Laden. "He is the hardest man ever to get to," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University...
...Instead, the U.S. may be forced to rely on the efforts of allied intelligence agencies closer to the action. "We don't do manhunts well," says CIA veteran Robert D. Steele, author of "On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World." "We had to invade Panama to get Noriega. It took us years get Pablo Escobar. And we won't get Bin Laden without help of Saudi and Pakistani intelligence...