CIA disbands unit that has tracked bin Laden.National Public Radio reported on July 3 that the CIA's special unit that has been searching for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. has been shut down. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, citing unnamed intelligence officials, reported on July 4 that the CIA's bin Laden unit, code-named "Alec Station," had been disbanded last year. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Times, the anonymous officials said that the change reflects a view that al-Qaeda's hierarchy has changed, and terrorist attacks inspired by the group are now being carried out independently of bin Laden and his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri (Arabic: أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهر?) or closer to the original Arabic pronunciation . After 9/11, President Bush had said that he wanted bin Laden "dead or alive." |
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