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...Afghanistan began nine weeks ago on a battlefield the size of Texas, and if all goes according to plan, it will end in a high, narrow valley smaller than the city of Austin. After weeks of playing Where's Osama?, military officials believe they have overheard bin Laden on handheld radio in the White Mountains, giving orders to his dwindling al-Qaeda forces, now estimated at just 300 to 1,000 men. If bin Laden is in Tora Bora, he and his soldiers are trapped in a box: snow-covered peaks loom on two sides, Afghan and American soldiers await...
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...findings were, officials felt that taken together, they were too overwhelming to ignore--or for that matter to keep from the public. These latest intercepts, unlike the sources that led to the previous, Oct. 11 alert, suggested that the al-Qaeda operatives didn't think they were being overheard, which made the conversations highly credible. It didn't take long for Bush to give the go-ahead Monday morning. Not surprisingly, not everyone was on board. Some FBI types had reservations about issuing another alert without any details. Other counterterrorism officials, one tells TIME, "are scratching their heads over this...
GERMANY A strong German-American relationship was fostered during the cold war. "They have modern technology, and it's very high-quality stuff," says an FBI veteran who worked with the Germans. They overheard bin Laden associates gloating over the Sept. 11 attacks...
...circulating somewhere within the student body (thanks to the Athletic Department, the Coop, and the H-club); people actually go to the Harvard-Yale game, even when it’s at Yale (thanks to Undergraduate Council and house buses); and at the Harvard-Princeton football game tailgate, I overheard someone say, “This is the closest thing to a Harvard-Yale showing that we’ve had in all four years that I’ve been here!” People are starting to show up to more than just Harvard-Yale...