CIA Al-Qaeda Expert: “Bit Of Whistling Past The Graveyard When We Say The Organization Is Broken”...

Associated Press Paul Garwood and Matthew Pennington September 2, 2006 at 11:42 AM
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The al-Qaida terror camps are gone from Afghanistan, but the enigma of Osama bin Laden still hangs over these lawless borderlands where tens of thousands of U.S. and Pakistani troops have spent nearly five years searching for him.

Villagers say the CIA missed by only a few miles when it targeted bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, with a missile strike in January. Then in May, U.S. Special Forces arrested one of al-Zawahri's closest aides, suggesting the trail has not gone entirely cold.

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