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CIA Rushing Resources to Bin Laden Hunt
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Armed with fresh intelligence, the CIA is moving additional man power and equipment into Pakistan in the effort to find Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri, U.S. officials tell ABC News.
"Reports that the trail has gone stone cold are not correct," said one U.S. official. "We are very much increasing our efforts there," the official said.
People familiar with the CIA operation say undercover officers with paramilitary training have been ordered into Pakistan and the area across the border with Afghanistan as part of the ramp-up.
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Although never publicly acknowledged, Pakistan has permitted CIA teams to secretly operate inside Pakistan.
Pakistan officials say they are aware that CIA teams have increased their presence in northern Waziristan since last September when Pakistan withdrew its troops from the area under a much-criticized "peace deal" with tribal leaders.
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Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell testified last week that current intelligence "to the best of our knowledge" puts both bin Laden and al Zawahri in Pakistan. It was the first time a high-ranking U.S. official publicly identified Pakistan as bin Laden's hiding place.
Past intelligence has indicated that bin Laden often changed locations in March, traveling to hiding places in the mountains once the snow cover begins to melt.
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March 5, 2007 in Osama bin Laden | Permalink | User Comments (401)
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I imagine this is in the news for a reason. And not to inform the rest of us that the CIA is rushing resources into Pakistan.
Posted by: Phoenix | Mar 5, 2007 8:17:42 PM
Outstanding! No need to keep this closehold, otherwise he might not get away....
Posted by: Bill | Mar 5, 2007 8:17:47 PM
Nice counter-intelligence through the press CIA! That oughta flush out what you need.
Posted by: Scott | Mar 5, 2007 8:18:12 PM
Bin Laden's dead. This is just misinformation.
Posted by: Hank | Mar 5, 2007 8:19:57 PM
It's not hard to see why a new push is being made to find Bin Laden. Just look at Bush's political situation. He definily would like to get him before he's out of office, and catching him would definitly take Iraq off of the front page, at least for a while.
Posted by: Jeff Conway | Mar 5, 2007 8:21:02 PM
Really getting tired of our press outing this information to the enemy.
Posted by: bill | Mar 5, 2007 8:21:17 PM
If true, this was leaked to ABC News by the administration. Use your brain, Steve. It's in the news because the feds want it in the news.
Posted by: Bardwell | Mar 5, 2007 8:21:44 PM
Bryan Ross has a history of exposing these things. The American people do not need to know this.
Posted by: Patrick | Mar 5, 2007 8:21:49 PM
Osama thanks you for the heads up,
ABC.
Posted by: mark | Mar 5, 2007 8:22:29 PM
Yet more irresponsible, anonymously-sourced reporting from our MSM.
Posted by: b | Mar 5, 2007 8:23:42 PM
This information should have been kept secret, now Bin Ladin will know we have operatives in Pakistan and will be searching them out!
Posted by: Steven Jones | Mar 5, 2007 8:24:10 PM
So, why is this on a web site so everyone knows what we are doing. Whatever happen to the time when stuff like this would not be printed....
Tell us when he is in a body bag!
Posted by: fred | Mar 5, 2007 8:24:29 PM
I agree, ABC should keep their mouth shut for the time being instead of possibly causing the slightest bit of heat within Pakistani politics.
Posted by: EWD | Mar 5, 2007 8:24:33 PM
So lets tell everyone!!!!! Why not? So when it fails, the media can once again go after bad policy decisions and poor execution. Nice job ABC.
Posted by: Rich | Mar 5, 2007 8:27:10 PM
This should put to rest the absurd left wing kannard that Bush has stopped looking for bin laden. Wait, I think it was, no one in the government is trying to find him.
LIES!!
Posted by: Burnie | Mar 5, 2007 8:28:07 PM
Now why in the world would you publish this story if you really wanted to catch him? Geeez. Nice work guys.....really.
Posted by: Roger | Mar 5, 2007 8:29:15 PM
So if Bush gets Bin Laden, the Surge works, and the USA continues not to be attacked will 'W' get the respect he deserves?
Posted by: Mike | Mar 5, 2007 8:29:49 PM
If it would increase the likelihood that OBL will be caught I would rather not have this information until AFTER THE FACT.
Posted by: Ryan | Mar 5, 2007 8:31:46 PM
It looks like the US intelligence community is doing a fine job.
God Bless America.
Posted by: Michael | Mar 5, 2007 8:32:01 PM
Is this news?
Should I rush to the coffee shop and tell everyone that the big news of the day is that we are pushing resources into a hunt for Bin Laden? Should they be surprised? Or excited?
Probably, they'd look at me as if I was mad for bothering to tell them something so obvious.
Thanks ABC, for your interesting story (!).
Posted by: Gary | Mar 5, 2007 8:33:34 PM
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