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Intelligence narrowing binladens whereabouts Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-07-2004/0002123415&EDATE= http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-07-2004/0002123415&EDATE= Today's News NEWSWEEK: U.S. Military, Intelligence Officials Are Confident They Are Narrowing bin Laden's Whereabouts; Human Intel Is Key to Search Recent Reports of Sightings Show Clearer Picture of Qaeda Leader as He Shuttles Between Pakistan and Afghanistan; Intel is So Focused Predators are Being Sent in to Search for Him NEW YORK, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Using powerful software called Analyst's Notebook that helps to piece together data on criminal and terror networks, U.S. military and intelligence officials are increasingly confident they are narrowing Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, Newsweek reports in the March 15 issue (on newsstands Monday, March 8). Key to the search is "accumulated humint," or human intelligence, says one insider. Other officials tell Newsweek that an increasing number of "data points" -- reports of sightings -- have created an ever-clearer picture of bin Laden's area of operation as he appears to shuttle between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now they've focused that picture to the point where they have been able to send in Predator unmanned aerial vehicles to search for him. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040307/NYSU006 ) The man charged with finding bin Laden is former Navy SEAL and current rear admiral William H. McRaven, Newsweek has learned. He's heading up Task Force 121, a covert, miniature strike force with a command structure so secretive that McRaven's role hasn't even been reported until now. Because bin Laden apparently no longer dares to use electronic means of communication, for fear that the U.S. would be listening, McRaven and his hunters are now trying to snare his couriers in transit. They scored a major victory two months ago with the capture of Hassan Ghul, a Qaeda operative who was carrying what U.S. officials say was a strategic memo from Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the mysterious terror leader allegedly behind the bombings of Shiites in Iraq. Ghul also yielded intel on bin Laden's position. Task Force 121, which also helped to capture Saddam Hussein under McRaven's command, represents something brand-new in warfare, a pure hybrid of civilian intelligence and military striking power, report Senior Editor Michael Hirsh and National Security Correspondent John Barry. It is the most ambitious melding yet of CIA assets, Special Forces (mainly the Army's Delta Force) and the Air Force. Formed late last year as part of Joint Special Operations Command-the secret "black ops" under Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who until recently was deputy operations director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-it is designed to produce a lightning-fast reaction should intel locate bin Laden or any other "high-value targets" anywhere for a few hours. It's a work in progress: CIA Director George Tenet meets frequently with Gen. John Abizaid, the head of Central Command, to nurture the marriage. Within the past few weeks, some intelligence sources say, a U.S. Predator also spotted a suspect believed to be Al-Zawahiri somewhere in the border area. Some Afghan and Pakistani sources, however, insist that bin Laden is several steps ahead-and that he will continue to outsmart his pursuers. A Taliban official in Pakistan, contacted by Newsweek, says he's heard that both top Qaeda leaders moved to more secure and separate locations in January, weeks before the spate of publicity about an American "spring offensive." The Taliban official learned that, he said, from a ranking Qaeda operative, a Yemeni who told him that other Qaeda and Taliban fighters had moved into Afghan provinces more than 100 miles from the Pakistani border. "We decided to leave the dangerous zone for safer areas," the Arab told the Taliban official, Zabihullah. "The sheik is now in the most secure area he has ever been in," the Arab said, referring to bin Laden. "We were all laughing at all these recent reports that the Americans had our sheik cornered." Zabihullah also said he received an encrypted e-mail last Thursday from a senior Qaeda source in Saudi Arabia. The Qaeda operative told him not to be taken in by the American "psychological warfare" campaign about bin Laden's imminent capture. He assured Zabihullah in the e-mail that "the sheik is in a safer place than ever and is more healthy than he's ever been." (Read Newsweek's news releases at http://www.Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Click "Pressroom" at the bottom of the page.) SOURCE Newsweek Web Site: http://www.newsweek.msnbc.com

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