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| 1 | French troops had bin Laden in sights: documentary | archived: ref 488 |
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| Reuters December 19, 2006 |
"In 2003 and 2004 we had bin Laden in our sights. The sniper said 'I have bin Laden'," an anonymous French soldier is quoted as saying. The documentary 'Bin Laden, the failings of a manhunt' is by journalists Emmanuel Razavi and Eric de Lavarene, who have worked for several major French media outlets in Afghanistan. A cable television channel plans to air the documentary in March. Razavi said the soldier told them it took roughly two hours for the request to reach the U.S. officers who could authorize it but the anonymous man is also quoted in the documentary as saying: "There was a hesitation in command." | |||||
| 2 | CIA Commander: U.S. Let bin Laden Slip Away | archived: ref 367 |
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| Newsweek August 5, 2005 |
in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora BoraÛintelligence operatives had tracked himÛand could have been caught. "He was there," Berntsen tells NEWSWEEK. | |||||
| 3 | From the al-Qaeda puzzle, a picture emerges | archived: ref 387 |
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| Asia Times September 11, 2002 |
It was here, in this village, that al-Qaeda began smuggling its hoarded gold out of the country last year even as US bombs were falling on the organization's mountain redoubts in Afghanistan. The gold, packed in bags, was loaded onto cargo ships and shipped to Dubai, from where it was sent on to Khartoum, Sudan, and to points unknown. But it wasn't only gold being shipped out, authorities believe. It was, in essence, al-Qaeda itself. |
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| 4 | Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline | archived: ref 492 |
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| Salon.com June 5, 2002 |
A 1998 memo written by al-Qaida military chief Mohammed Atef reveals that Osama bin Laden's group had detailed knowledge of negotiations that were taking place between Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and American government and business leaders over plans for a U.S. oil and gas pipeline across that Central Asian country. The e-mail memo was found in 1998 on a computer seized by the FBI during its investigation into the 1998 African embassy bombings, which were sponsored by al-Qaida. Atef's memo was discovered by FBI counter-terrorism expert John O'Neill, who left the bureau in 2001, complaining that U.S. oil interests were hindering his investigation into al-Qaida. | |||||
| 5 | How bin Laden got away | archived: ref 310 |
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| Christian Science Monitor March 4, 2002 |
A day-by-day account of how Osama bin Laden eluded the world's most powerful military machine. | |||||
| 6 | The Getaway: Questions surround a secret Pakistani airlift. | ref 50 |
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| New Yorker January 28, 2002 |
...Northern Alliance officials who claimed that Pakistani airplanes had flown into Kunduz to evacuate the Pakistanis there. American and Pakistani officials refused to confirm the reports. On November 16th, when journalists asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about the reports of rescue aircraft, he was dismissive. | |||||
| 7 | America's Chaotic Road to War | archived: ref 281 |
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| Washington Post January 27, 2002 |
Although al Qaeda's home base was Afghanistan, the terrorist organization operated nearly worldwide, he said. The CIA had been working the bin Laden problem for years. We have a 60-country problem, he told the group.
"Let's pick them off one at a time," Bush replied. |
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| 8 | About the Bin Laden Family | archived: ref 10 |
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| PBS Frontline January 0, 2002 |
Excerpted from a report dealing with prominent Saudi families of Yemeni origin. Although FRONTLINE cannot vouch for the accuracy of this report, it does come from French intelligence sources. | |||||
| 9 | Taliban's trail leads to Pakistan | archived: ref 65 |
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| Asia Times December 13, 2001 |
It is believed that the Taliban will split into a number of wings in order to establish political clout in the tribal area. One group, comprising diplomats and some lower-ranked ministers in the previous Afghanistan government, has already announced in a press conference as having split from the Taliban, but it refused to condemn either Taliban leader Mullah Omar or Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network. | |||||
| 10 | Escape and Evasion: What happened when the Special Forces landed in Afghanistan? | ref 47 |
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| New Yorker November 12, 2001 |
Myers did not tell the press that, in the wake of a near-disaster during the assault on Mullah Omar's complex, the Pentagon was rethinking future Special Forces operations inside Afghanistan. Delta Force, which prides itself on stealth, had been counterattacked by the Taliban, and some of the Americans had had to fight their way to safety. Twelve Delta members were wounded, three of them seriously. | |||||