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Osama Bin Laden: Months
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In July, convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam (he was planning to blow up the Los Angeles airport as 1999 turned into 2000) testified that he had spent six months in 1998 at one of bin Laden's Afghan training camps. There, he said, he learned to release cyanide into the ventilation systems of office buildings. Bin Laden, Ressam told intelligence officials, was ... interested in the use of "low flying aircraft for the distribution of toxic materials," Newsweek reports.
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[I]n the last three months, following a request from President Bush to "flood the zone," the CIA has sharply increased the number of intelligence officers and assets devoted to the pursuit of bin Laden. The intelligence officers will team with the military's secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and with more resources from the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies.
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"We find we appear to be just hours behind him [bin Laden]. One suspect met with Usama in September, and Khalid Shaikh said he met with him in December," the official said on customary condition of anonymity. "We were months behind, then weeks and now hours behind him."
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"I truly am not concerned about him," Bush said in March; a dramatic reversal from his avowal only five months earlier that he wouldn’t rest until he had bin Laden’s head on a platter. And only a week or so after Bush declared bin Laden washed-up, CIA director George Tenet called him an "immediate and serious threat."
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