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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59775-2004Feb21.html
A Secret Hunt Unravels in Afghanistan

Mission to Capture or Kill al Qaeda Leader Frustrated by Near Misses,
Political Disputes

By Steve Coll
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 22, 2004; Page A01

First of two articles.

The seeds of the CIA's first formal plan to capture or kill Osama bin Laden
were contained in another urgent manhunt -- for Mir Aimal Kasi, the
Pakistani migrant who murdered two CIA employees while spraying rounds from
an assault rifle at cars idling before the entrance to the CIA's Langley
headquarters in 1993.

For several years after the shooting, Kasi remained a fugitive in the border
areas straddling Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. From its Langley offices,
the CIA's Counterterrorist Center asked the Islamabad station for help
recruiting agents who might be able to track Kasi down. Case officers signed
up a group of Afghan tribal fighters who had worked for the CIA during the
1980s guerrilla war against Soviet occupying forces in Afghanistan.

The family-based team of paid agents, given the cryptonym FD/TRODPINT, set
up residences around the city of Kandahar. They were rugged, bearded
fighters -- often in teams of a dozen or so -- who rolled around southern
Afghanistan in four-wheel-drive vehicles, blending comfortably into the
region's militarized tribal society.

In the years before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the CIA carried
out a secret but ultimately unsuccessful manhunt for bin Laden. It was based
at first on the band of Afghan tribal agents, and later expanded to include
other agents and allies, especially the legendary guerrilla leader Ahmed
Shah Massoud. But the search became mired in mutual frustrations, near
misses and increasingly bitter policy disputes in Washington between the
Clinton White House and the CIA.

An ambitious plan for the TRODPINT team to kidnap bin Laden from his bed and
hold him in an Afghan cave telegraphed the CIA's audacity, despite what
operatives saw as a restrictive mandate from the president. At the same
time, the CIA's inability to pinpoint bin Laden's location or capture him
drew pointed questions from the White House about the agency's
effectiveness.

This account, a detailed history of the pursuit of bin Laden before the
terrorist attacks of 2001, describes for the first time aborted CIA plans to
seize bin Laden at his Kandahar farm, another attempt to rain Katyusha
rockets on him, and the final struggle to work with Massoud, all in vain. It
is based on several dozen interviews with participants and officials in the
United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, as well as documents,
private records and memoirs about the CIA covert action program in
Afghanistan, which was designed in the 1980s to expel occupying Soviet
forces and later to capture bin Laden or disrupt his activities.

When the TRODPINT team set out to find Kasi, one or two senior family
members handled the face-to-face contacts with the CIA. Case officers
working from the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad supplied them with cash, assault
rifles, land mines, motorcycles, trucks, listening devices and secure
communications equipment.

Together they concocted a bold plan to capture Kasi and fly him to the
United States for trial. If the Afghan agents found Kasi, they would detain
him until U.S. Special Forces secretly flew into Afghanistan to bundle the
fugitive away. With the TRODPINT team acting as spotters, the CIA identified
a desert landing strip near Kandahar that could be used for this clandestine
American extraction flight. The White House approved the plan, and President
Bill Clinton secretly dispatched a Special Forces team to southern
Afghanistan to confirm the coordinates and suitability of the makeshift
airstrip.

In the end, Kasi was found elsewhere. In late May 1997, an ethnic Baluch man
walked into the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, and told a clerk he had
information about Kasi. He was taken to a young CIA officer who was chief of
base in the city. The informant handed her an application for a Pakistani
driver's license recently filled out by Kasi under an alias. It contained a
photo and a thumbprint that confirmed Kasi's identity.

Three weeks later, a team of CIA officers, Pakistani intelligence officers
and FBI agents arrested Kasi at a Pakistani hotel, flew him to the United
States and jailed him for trial. (He was convicted of murder in 1997,
sentenced to death in 1998 and executed in Virginia on Nov. 14, 2002.)

In the weeks that followed Kasi's arrest, a new question was raised inside
the CIA's Counterterrorist Center: What would become of their elaborately
equipped and financed TRODPINT assets? The agents had filed numerous reports
about where Kasi might be, but none of these had panned out. Ultimately, the
team played no direct role in Kasi's arrest. Despite this questionable
record, it seemed a shame to just cut them loose, some Langley officers
believed.

The Hunt Begins


At CIA headquarters, the unit set up to track Kasi was located in the
Counterterrorist Center. A few partitions away was another small cluster of
analysts and operators who made up what the CIA officially called the "bin
Laden issue unit."

The unit had been created early in 1996 to watch bin Laden, who was then
living in Sudan. By that point, the United States had decided for security
reasons to close the embassy and CIA station in Khartoum, the Sudanese
capital, where officers had previously been collecting intelligence about
bin Laden's financial support for Islamic radicals in North Africa and
elsewhere. In the spring of 1996, Sudan yielded to international pressure to
expel bin Laden. The Saudi found sanctuary in Afghanistan in May.

The CIA had no station or base in Afghanistan, however, and it had no paid
agents in the country at the time, other than those hunting for Kasi near
Kandahar and a few loose contacts working on drug trafficking and recovering
Stinger shoulder-fired missiles, according to Tom Simons, then U.S.
ambassador to Pakistan, whose account is supported by several other U.S.
officials familiar with the CIA's Afghan agent roster.

Back at Langley, the bin Laden unit transmitted reports regularly to
policymakers in classified channels about threats issued by bin Laden
against American targets -- via faxed leaflets, television interviews and
underground pamphlets. The CIA's analysts described bin Laden at this time
as an active, dangerous financier of Islamic extremism, but they saw him as
more a money source than a terrorist operator.

To senior career officers in the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, the TRODPINT
tribal team now beckoned as a way to watch bin Laden in Afghanistan. The
paid Afghan agents could monitor or harass the Saudi up close, under CIA
control -- and perhaps capture him for trial, if the White House approved
such an operation. Operators and analysts in the bin Laden unit argued
passionately for more active measures against him. Jeff O'Connell, then
director of the Counterterrorist Center, and his deputy, Paul Pillar, agreed
in the summer of 1997 to hand them control of the TRODPINT agent team,
complete with its weapons and spy gear.

As bin Laden's bloodcurdling televised threats against Americans increased
in number and menace during 1997, the CIA -- with approval from Clinton's
White House -- turned from just watching bin Laden toward making plans to
capture him.

Working with lawyers at Langley in late 1997 and early 1998, the TRODPINT
agents' CIA controllers modified the original Kasi capture plan -- with its
secret air strip for extraction flights -- so it could be used to seize bin
Laden and prosecute him, or kill him if he violently resisted arrest.

A long and frustrating hunt for bin Laden had now formally begun.

During the three years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the hunt would
eventually involve several dozen local paid CIA agents in Afghanistan and
Pakistan, a secret commando team drawn from Uzbek special forces, another
drawn from retired Pakistani special forces, and a deepening intelligence
alliance with Massoud, the northern Afghan guerrilla leader. Despite these
varied efforts, bin Laden continually eluded their grasp.

Years later, those involved in the secret campaign against bin Laden still
disagree about why it failed -- and who is to blame.

On the front lines in Pakistan and Central Asia, working-level CIA officers
felt they had a rare, urgent sense of the menace bin Laden posed before
Sept. 11. Yet a number of controversial proposals to attack bin Laden were
turned down by superiors at Langley or the White House, who feared the plans
were poorly developed, wouldn't work or would embroil the United States in
Afghanistan's then-obscure civil war. At other times, plans to track or
attack bin Laden were delayed or watered down after stalemated debates
inside Clinton's national security cabinet.

At Langley, CIA officers sometimes saw the Clinton cabinet as overly
cautious, obsessed with legalities and unwilling to take political risks in
Afghanistan by arming bin Laden's Afghan enemies and directly confronting
the radical Taliban Islamic militia. But at the Clinton White House, senior
policymakers and counterterrorism analysts sometimes saw the CIA's efforts
in Afghanistan as timid, naive, self-protecting and ineffective.

Some of the agency's efforts involved intelligence collection about bin
Laden's whereabouts; others grew into covert actions designed to capture or
kill leaders of bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Both tracks were carried out
in deep secrecy mainly by career clandestine service officers in the CIA's
Counterterrorist Center and the Near East Division of the agency's
Directorate of Operations.

Audacious Plans Take Root


As the TRODPINT team began its work on bin Laden early in 1998, a federal
grand jury in New York opened a secret investigation into the Saudi's
terrorist-financing activity. The probe had been prompted by a defector from
bin Laden's inner circle, financial evidence from terrorist attacks in Egypt
and elsewhere, and old files from earlier terrorist cases in New York. No
one outside the Justice Department was supposed to know about the grand
jury's work, but it began to leak to officials involved with the CIA's
planning.

CIA officers working from Islamabad, led by station chief Gary Schroen,
assumed in early 1998 that if their agents captured bin Laden in southern
Afghanistan, a U.S. grand jury would quickly indict him. If not, the CIA or
the Clinton White House would ask Egypt or Saudi Arabia to take custody of
bin Laden for trial. Schroen kept asking the Counterterrorist Center at
Langley, "Do we have an indictment?" The answers, according to several
officials involved, were cryptic: Bin Laden was "indictable," the Islamabad
station was told.

The TRODPINT team developed a detailed plan to hold bin Laden in a cave in
southern Afghanistan for 30 days before American Special Forces flew in
secretly to take him away. The agents located a cave where they could hide
out comfortably. They assured their CIA handlers that they had stored enough
food and water in the cave to keep bin Laden healthy during his kidnapping.

By imprisoning bin Laden in the cave, the agents hoped to ease his
extraction. If enough time passed after bin Laden's initial capture, al
Qaeda's agitated lieutenants would be less alert when the Americans flew in
to bundle bin Laden off. Also, the detention would allow time to persuade
either a U.S. lawyer or a foreign government to hand down criminal charges.

If CIA officers and their paid agents detained bin Laden for an eventual
trial in the United States, they would be operating under the authority of
Executive Order 12333, which allowed the CIA to aid the pursuit of
international fugitives. The measure was signed by President Ronald Reagan
in 1981 and renewed by successive presidents. A thick archive of Justice
Department memoranda and court opinions upheld the right of American agents
to abduct fugitives overseas and return them to U.S. courts in many
instances.

At the same time, Executive Order 12333 banned assassination by the CIA or
its agents. [See related article.] CIA officers met with their TRODPINT
agents in Pakistan to emphasize that their plan to capture bin Laden and
hold him in the Afghan cave could not turn into an assassination. "I want to
reinforce this with you," one officer told the Afghans, as he later
described the meeting in cables to Langley and Washington. "You are to
capture him alive."

Physical and Political Risks


As they refined their kidnapping plans in the spring of 1998, the bin Laden
unit at the CIA's Counterterrorist Center looked with rising interest at
Tarnak Farm. This was a compound of perhaps 100 acres that lay isolated on a
stretch of desert about three miles from the Kandahar airport. On some
nights, bin Laden slept at Tarnak with one of his wives. He chatted on his
satellite phone in this period and lived fairly openly, protected by
bodyguards. The question arose: Could the CIA's tribal agents be equipped to
raid bin Laden's house and take him from his bed?

Tarnak's main compound was encircled by a mud-brick wall about 10 feet high.
Inside were about 80 modest one-story and two-story structures. Flat plains
of sand and sagebrush extended for miles. Kandahar's crowded bazaars lay
half an hour's drive away.

CIA officers based in Islamabad spent long hours with the TRODPINT team's
leaders to devise a plan to attack Tarnak in the middle of the night. The
Afghans had scouted and mapped Tarnak up close; the CIA had photographed it
from satellites.

The agents organized an attack party of about 30 fighters. They identified a
staging point where they would assemble all of their vehicles. They would
drive to a secondary rallying point a few miles from Tarnak.

The main raiding party would walk across the desert at around 2 a.m. They
had scouted a path that avoided minefields and had deep gullies to mask
their approach. They would breach the outer wall by crawling through a
drainage ditch on the airport side.

A second group planned to roll quietly toward the front gate in two Jeeps.
They would carry silenced pistols to take out two guards at the entrance.
Meanwhile the other attackers would have burst into the several small huts
where bin Laden's wives slept. When they found the tall, bearded Saudi, they
would cuff him, drag him toward the gate, and load him into a Land Cruiser.
Other vehicles back at the rally point would approach in sequence and they
would all drive together to the provisioned cave about 30 miles away.

Satellite photography and reports from the ground indicated that there were
dozens of women and children living at Tarnak. Langley asked for detailed
explanations from members of the tribal team about how they planned to
minimize harm to bystanders during their assault.

The CIA officers involved thought their agents were serious,
semiprofessional fighters who were trying to cooperate as best they could.
Yet "if you understood the Afghan mind-set and the context," recalled an
officer involved, it was clear that in any raid the Afghans would probably
fire indiscriminately at some point.

In Washington, Richard Clarke, the White House counterterrorism coordinator,
drove out to Langley late in the spring of 1998 to meet with his CIA
counterpart, O'Connell, who briefed him on the details of the Tarnak attack
plan and how much it would cost. O'Connell also outlined the political
risks, including the potential problem of civilian casualties.

Members of the White House counterterrorism team reacted skeptically. Their
sense was that the TRODPINT agents were old anti-Soviet mujaheddin who had
long since passed their peak fighting years and were probably milking the
CIA for money while minimizing the risks they took on the ground. If they
did go through with a Tarnak raid, some White House officials feared, women
and children would die, and bin Laden would probably escape. Such a massacre
would undermine U.S. interests in the Muslim world and elsewhere.

The CIA's top leaders reviewed the proposed raid in June 1998. The
discussion revealed similar doubts among senior officers in the Directorate
of Operations. In the end, as CIA Director George J. Tenet described it to
colleagues years later, the CIA's relevant chain of command -- Jack Downing,
then chief of the Directorate of Operations, his deputy James Pavitt,
O'Connell and Pillar -- all recommended against going forward with the
Tarnak raid.

By then there was no enthusiasm for the plan in the Clinton White House,
either. "Am I missing something? Aren't these people going to be mowed down
on their way to the wall?" Clarke asked his White House and CIA colleagues
sarcastically, one official recalled.

Tenet never formally presented the raid plan for Clinton's approval,
according to several officials involved.

The decision was cabled to Islamabad. The tribal team's plans should be set
aside, perhaps to be revived later. Meanwhile the agents were encouraged to
continue to look for opportunities to catch bin Laden away from Tarnak,
where among other things, an ambush attempt would carry relatively little
risk of civilian deaths.

Some of the working-level CIA officers involved in the planning reacted
bitterly to the decision. They believed the kidnapping plan could succeed.

A Renewed Urgency


Less than two months later, on Aug. 7, 1998, two teams of al Qaeda suicide
bombers launched synchronized attacks against two U.S. embassies in Africa.
In Nairobi, Kenya, 213 people died and 4,000 were injured. In Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania, the toll was 11 dead and 85 wounded. Within months, the New York
federal grand jury previously investigating bin Laden delivered an
indictment of the Saudi for directing the strikes, among other alleged
crimes.

Inside Langley's Counterterrorist Center, some CIA analysts and officers
were devastated and angry as they watched the televised images of death and
rescue in Africa. One of the bin Laden unit's analysts confronted Tenet.
"You are responsible for those deaths," she said, "because you didn't act on
the information we had, when we could have gotten him" through the Tarnak
raid, one official involved recalled her saying. The woman was "crying and
sobbing, and it was a very rough scene," the official said.

Tenet stood there and took it. He was a boisterous, emotional man, and he
did not shrink from honest confrontation, some of his CIA colleagues felt.
After the Africa attacks, Tenet redoubled his pressure on the bin Laden
unit's covert campaign to find their target.

By then, however, bin Laden had dramatically increased his security. He
discarded his traceable satellite phone and moved much more stealthily
around Afghanistan.

For those who had worked on the Tarnak raid plan, the questions lingered.
Why had the CIA's leaders turned the idea down?

Down in the trenches of a bureaucracy enveloped in secrecy, the resentments
festered, amplified by rumors, office grievances and the intensity of the
daily grind.

On Aug. 20, acting on intelligence reports of a scheduled meeting of bin
Laden and other al Qaeda leaders, Clinton ordered 75 cruise missiles
launched from a submarine in the Arabian Sea against a network of jihadist
training camps in eastern Afghanistan. The attack killed at least 21
Pakistani volunteers but missed bin Laden.

'Weekend Warriors'


By mid-1999, the sense both at the White House and in Tenet's 7th-floor
suite in CIA headquarters at Langley was that the Counterterrorist Center
had grown too dependent on the TRODPINT tribal agents. One of Tenet's aides
referred to them derisively as "weekend warriors," middle-aged and now
prosperous Afghan fighters with a few Kalashnikovs in their closets.

At the White House, among the few national security officials who knew of
the agents' existence, the attitude evolved from "hopeful skepticism to
outright mockery," as one official recalled it.

At one point the agents moved north to Kabul's outskirts and rented a farm
as a base. They moved in and out of the Afghan capital to scout homes where
bin Laden occasionally stayed. They developed a new set of plans in which
they would strike a Kabul house where bin Laden slept, snatch the Saudi from
his bed and retreat from the city in Jeeps. The CIA supplied explosives to
the agents because their plan called for them to blow up small bridges as
they made their escape.

The agents never acted. Their rented farm was a working vineyard. William B.
Milam, then U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, who was briefed on the operation,
asked his CIA colleagues sarcastically, "So what are they waiting for -- the
wine to ferment?"

To shake up the hunt, Tenet appointed a fast-track executive assistant from
the 7th floor, known to his colleagues as Rich, to take charge of the bin
Laden unit. Tenet also named Cofer Black, a longtime case officer in Africa
who had tracked bin Laden in Sudan, as the Counterterrorist Center's new
director. The bin Laden unit and its chief reported directly to Black;
during the next two years they would work closely together.

When Black took over, the bin Laden unit had about 25 professionals. Most of
them were women, and two-thirds had backgrounds as analysts. They called
themselves "the Manson Family," after the crazed convicted murderer Charles
Manson, because they had acquired a reputation within the CIA for wild
alarmism about the rising al Qaeda threat.

Their reports described over and over bin Laden's specific, open threats to
inflict mass casualties against Americans. They could not understand why no
one else seemed to take the threat as seriously as they did. They pleaded
with colleagues that bin Laden was not like the old leftist, theatrical
terrorists of the 1970s and 1980s who wanted, in terrorism expert Brian
Jenkins's famous maxim, "a lot of people watching but not a lot of people
dead." Bin Laden wanted many American civilians to die, they warned. They
could be dismissive of colleagues who did not share their sense of urgency.

"The rest of the CIA and the intelligence community looked on our efforts as
eccentric and at times fanatic," recalled the then-chief of the bin Laden
unit. "It was a cult," agreed a U.S. official who dealt with them.
"Jonestown," said a second person involved, asked to sum up the unit's
atmosphere. "I outlawed Kool-Aid."

Working with the Islamabad station, the bin Laden unit pushed for a surge in
recruitments of agents who could operate or travel in Afghanistan.

Some of those were informal sources, helping the CIA because of their
political opposition to the Taliban. Others were recruited onto the CIA's
payroll. Case officers working the Afghan borderlands began to recruit a few
Taliban military leaders, including a brigade-level commander in eastern
Afghanistan. One young case officer operating from Islamabad recruited six
or seven Taliban commanders operating in the eastern region. Yet none of the
recruited agents was close to bin Laden. The CIA could not recruit a single
agent inside the core al Qaeda terrorist leadership.

Black knew that the CIA was in trouble "without penetrations" of bin Laden's
organization, as a classified Counterterrorist Center briefing to Clinton's
national security aides put it late in 1999. "While we need to disrupt
[terrorist] operations . . . we need also to recruit sources," even though
"recruiting terrorist sources is difficult."

Looking for Help


The CIA had the best agent coverage around Kandahar. Even so, its classified
tracking reports from multiple sources always seemed a day or two behind bin
Laden's movements. The lack of a source in al Qaeda's inner circle made
forecasting the Saudi's hour-to-hour itinerary impossible. Moreover,
Kandahar was the Taliban's military stronghold. The Taliban had provided
safe haven to bin Laden in Afghanistan in exchange for money and al Qaeda's
troops. Even if the CIA pinpointed bin Laden downtown, there was no easy way
to organize a capture operation; the attacking force would face strong
opposition from Taliban units.

In the summer of 1999, a truck bomb detonated outside the Kandahar house of
Taliban leader Mohammad Omar. Afterward, bin Laden used his wealth to build
new compounds for the Taliban leader. In Omar's home province of Uruzgan,
bin Laden built a new training complex for foreign al Qaeda volunteers.

The CIA ordered satellite imagery and agent reports to document this camp.
Officers hoped bin Laden might wander in for an inspection. At one point a
team of four or five Afghan agents from the original TRODPINT group
approached the camp at night. Al Qaeda guards opened fire and wounded one of
them, they reported.

Kabul was a relatively easy place to spy. The Afghan capital was a sprawling
and ethnically diverse city, a place of strangers and travelers. At one
point the CIA believed bin Laden had two wives in Kabul. He would visit
their houses periodically. The Islamabad station recruited an Afghan who
worked as a security guard at one of the Kabul houses bin Laden used. But
the agent was so far down the al Qaeda information chain that he never knew
when bin Laden was going to turn up. He was summoned to duty just as the
Saudi's Jeeps rolled in.

Bin Laden's travels within Afghanistan followed a somewhat predictable path.
He would often ride west on the Ring Road from Kandahar, then loop north and
east through Ghowr province. The CIA mapped guesthouses in obscure Ghowr,
one of Afghanistan's most isolated and impoverished regions. From there the
Saudi usually moved east to Kabul and then sometimes on to Jalalabad before
turning south again toward Kandahar.

Americans who studied this track called it "the circuit." At the White
House, counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke tried to develop
logarithmic formulas that attempted to predict where bin Laden was likely to
move next when he was at any given point.

The CIA's bin Laden unit sought to trap bin Laden out of "KKJ," an insider's
acronym for the densely populated cities of Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad.
They hoped to catch him in lightly populated rural areas. Yet they struggled
to find a convincing plan.

They knew that on the ground in Afghanistan by the summer of 1999 there was
only one experienced, proven guerrilla leader waging war and collecting
intelligence day in and day out against the Taliban, bin Laden and their
radical Islamic allies. This was the legendary Tajik guerrilla leader Ahmed
Shah Massoud, a man with a long and mutually frustrating history with the
CIA.

>From 1997 onward, Massoud's Northern Alliance militia forces waged a brutal,
existential war against the Taliban north of Kabul, often battling directly
against bin Laden's Arab, Chechen and Pakistani volunteers. They knew bin
Laden not only as a preacher, financier and terrorist planner, but sometimes
as a military field commander who wandered near their battle lines.

There were serious doubts inside Clinton's cabinet about the history of drug
trafficking and human rights violations among Massoud's Northern Alliance
forces. But at the CIA, in the Counterterrorist Center, analysts and
officers in the bin Laden unit knew one thing for certain: Massoud was the
enemy of their enemy.

A deeper, more active, more lethal alliance with Massoud, these CIA officers
argued, offered by far the best chance to capture or kill bin Laden before
he struck again.

Staff writer Griff Witte contributed to this report.

NEXT: The CIA and Massoud.



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