The plan sounded simple. The CIA would help Pakistan organize a secret unit that would carry out a plot to slip into neighboring Afghanistan to snatch alleged terrorist OSAMA BIN LADEN. CIA officers would be assigned to the unit, and the U.S. would provide training and equipment. PRESIDENT CLINTON approved the plan, and the team should have been off and running last year. In fact, it never left the gate: despite CIA enthusiasm, the Pakistanis dragged their feet and never got beyond basic training. "They didn't do squat," says an Administration official close to the operation. Now the U.S. suspects that...
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