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Wed. May 28, 2003

Playing Offense

Playing Offense – Subtitled, “The inside story of how U.S. terrorist hunters are going after al Qaeda,” this article offers up some interesting details and observations about the 18 month old fight against Al Qaeda: “Much of this has not been told before. A windfall of intelligence has led to a newer, more profound understanding of bin Laden’s secret network, intelligence officials say. They have built up dossiers on his followers from a scant few hundred before 9/11 to over 3,000 today. They have identified the core group’s sworn membership, now thought to number only 180 true believers. And bin Laden’s personal fortune, investigators say, is all but gone.”