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Undone by Destiny; The CIA's effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, in the months before 9/11, was hurt by a lack of urgency.(Excerpt)

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| March 08, 2004 | Coll, Steve | COPYRIGHT 2004 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Steve Coll, From GHOST WARS: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA, AFGHANISTAN, AND BIN LADEN, FROM THE SOVIET INVASION TO SEPTEMBER 10, 2001, by Steve Coll. To be published by Penguin Press. [c]2004 by Steve Coll.

By summer 1999, only one proven guerrilla leader in Afghanistan was waging war and collecting intelligence against Osama bin Laden. This was the legendary Ahmed Shah Massoud. There were doubts inside Clinton's cabinet about drug-trafficking and human-rights violations among Massoud's Northern Alliance forces. But the CIA knew one thing for certain: Massoud was the enemy of their enemy.

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