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January 20, 2002, Sunday, Final EditionSECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A01LENGTH: 5414 wordsHEADLINE: A Strategy's Cautious Evolution; Befo re Sept. 11, the Bush Anti-Terror Effort Was MostlyAmbitionBYLINE: Barton Gellman, Washington Post Staff WriterBODY:

On a closed patch of desert in the first week of June , the U.S. government built a house for Osama bin Laden.Bin Laden wo uld have recognized the four-room villa. He lived in one just like it outside Kandahar,Afghanistan, whenever he spent a night among the recruits at his Tarnak Qila training camp. The stone-for-stone replica, in Nevada, was a prop in the rehearsal of his death.From a Predator drone flying two miles high and four miles away, Air Force and Central Intelligence Agencyground controllers loosed a missile. It carried true with a prototype warhead, one of about 100 made, for killingmen inside buildings. According to people briefed on the experiment, careful analysis after the missile piercedthe villa wall showed blast effects that would hav e slain anyone in the target room. The Bush administrationnow had in its hands wh at one participant called "the holy grail" of a three-year quest by the U.S. government a tool that could k ill bin Laden w ithin minutes of finding him. The CIA planned an d practiced the operation.But for the next three mo nths, before the catastrophe of Sept. 11, President Bush and his advisers held back.The new national security team aw aited results of a broad policy review toward the al Qaeda network andAfghanistan's Taliban regime, still underway in a working group two and three levels below the president. Bushan d his top aides had higher priorities above all, ballistic missile de fense. As they turned their attention toterrorism, they were m oving tow ard more far-reaching goals than the death o f bin Laden alone.Bush's engagem ent with terrorism in the first eight mo nths of his term, described in interviews with advisersan d contemporary records, tells a story of burgeoning ambition withou t the commitment of comparablyambitious means. In deliberations and successive drafts of a National Security P residential Directive approvedby Bush's second-ranking advisers on A ug. 13 , the declared o bjective evolved from "rolling back" to"permanently eroding" and eventu ally to "eliminating" bin Laden's al Qaeda organization.Cabinet-rank policymakers, or principals, took up the new strategy for the first time on Sept. 4. It called fo rphased escalation of pressure against Taliban leaders to present them w ith an unavoidable choice disgorge alQaeda or face removal from power.

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And the brass knuckles came on.America's frontline agents in thewar on terror have hacked into for-eignbanks, used secret prisons overseas, and spent over$20 millionbankrollingfriendly Muslimintelligence serv-ices.They haveassassinated alQaedaleaders,spirited pris-oners to nations with brutal human-rights records, andamassed files equal to a thousand encyclopedias.But the war is far from over. Last week, Osama binLaden's top deputyexhorted the faithful to strike at west-ern embassies and businesses. The injunction, fromAyman al-Zawahiri,came on the heels ofbombings inMorocco and Saudi Arabia and caused the United Statesto close diplomatic posts overseas and increase thehomeland security warning level from yellow to orange.AlQaeda,one FBIveteran explained,"has onemore 9/11inthem."With all the headlines about the latest attacks andwarnings, however, it is easy to miss the amount ofdam-age America's terrorist hunters have inflicted on binLaden's ragtag army. U.S. News has retraced the war onterror, starting in the very first weeks after 9/11, to ex-amine indetailhowWashington and its allies launchedanunprecedented drive, led by the Central IntelligenceAgency, to disrupt and destroy bin Laden's operation.Interviews were conducted with over three dozen pastand current counterterrorism officials in ahalf-dozenGURU. Bin Laden's followers, like these in Gaza, rally to the leade r.

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