[iwar] [fc:CIA.Gets.New.Powers.in.Terrorism.War]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:CIA.Gets.New.Powers.in.Terrorism.War]
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CIA Gets New Powers in Terrorism War

By PAULINE JELINEK
.c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (Oct.  22) - As the U.S.  military pursues its mission to
hunt down Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network, the CIA has been
given new powers and money to wage its own war against America's most
wanted terrorist suspect. 

Starting the third week of air strikes in Afghanistan, U.S.  fighter and
ground attack jets set out Monday from the aircraft carrier Theodore
Roosevelt, centerpiece of one of four Navy battle groups in the Arabian
Sea off Pakistan.

Warplanes on Sunday bombed Taliban positions near a front line north of
the Afghan capital, Kabul, marking what could be the start of a more
forceful campaign to help rebel forces fighting the regime that harbors
bin Laden. 

Meanwhile, the Pentagon released the names of two members of the Army's
elite Ranger regiment killed over the weekend as part of the first
publicly acknowledged covert mission in the anti-terrorism effort. 

Asked Sunday whether U.S.  forces would kill bin Laden on sight, Gen. 
Richard B.  Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it
depends on what happens when he's found. 

``If it's a defensive situation, then bullets will fly, but if we can
capture somebody, then we'll do that,'' he said on ABC's ``This Week.''

Asked the same question, Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN's
``Late Edition:'' ``Our mission is to bring him to justice or bring
justice to him.''

President Bush signed an order last month directing the CIA to destroy
bin Laden and his communications, security apparatus and infrastructure
in retaliation for the Sept.  11 World Trade Center and Pentagon
attacks, a senior administration official said Sunday. 

Bush also added more than $1 billion to the spy agency's war on
terrorism, most of it for the new covert action. 

The CIA has been in southern Afghanistan, trying to win over ethnic
Pashtun leaders not solidly behind the Taliban, officials have said. 

It also has operated an unmanned Predator spy vehicle outfitted with
missiles, defense officials indicated last week.  It is the first time
the United States has used the armed, remote-controlled drone in a
military campaign, they said. 

Besides the air strikes north of Kabul, Afghan officials reported air
attacks Sunday around the western city of Herat, Kandahar in the south
and the front line positions near the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. 

Officials of the northern alliance fighting the Taliban had been asking
the United States to bomb the front line north of Kabul so that they
could move on the capital, but until now bombing of front line positions
has mostly been around Mazar-e-Sharif. 

Powell said the United States was ``very interested'' in seeing rebel
forces take Mazar-e-Sharif, but was still ``continuing discussion''
about whether a rebel march into Kabul would be ``the best thing.'' The
United States and Britain have been reluctant to help the alliance seize
Kabul until a broad-based government is formed to replace the Taliban. 

Bombing over Afghanistan began Oct.  7, and officials on Saturday
released details of daring overnight assaults made by special forces
troops starting the previous night to gain intelligence against al-Qaida
and the Taliban. 

In lightning strikes, some 100 airborne Rangers and other special forces
hit a Taliban-controlled airfield and a residence of Taliban leader
Mullah Mohammed Omar near Kandahar.  Documents and other items taken
during the assaults were being analyzed for intelligence value, defense
officials said. 

Officials said Sunday that hostile fire had been ruled but they were
still investigating the helicopter crash in Pakistan that killed the
Rangers.  They identified the Rangers as Spc.  Jonn J.  Edmunds, 20 of
Cheyenne, Wyo., and Pfc.  Kristofor T.  Stonesifer, 28, of Missoula,
Mont.  They served with the 75th Ranger Regiment, based at Fort Benning,
Ga. 

Officials would not disclose the role of the Black Hawk copter, although
some believed it was preparing to swoop across the border into
Afghanistan in case any Rangers had to be rescued. 

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