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| At CIA, a convert to Islam leads the terrorism hunt |
| 2012-03-25 |
| For every cloud of smoke that follows a CIA drone strike in Pakistain, dozens of smaller plumes can be traced to a gaunt figure standing in a courtyard near the center of the agency's Langley campus in Virginia. The man with the nicotine habit is in his late 50s, with stubble on his face and the dark-suited wardrobe of an undertaker. As chief of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center for the past six years, he has functioned in a funereal capacity for al-Qaeda. Roger, which is the first name of his cover identity, may be the most consequential but least visible national security official in Washington -- the principal architect of the CIA's drone campaign and the leader of the hunt for the late Osama bin Laden ... who had a brief but splitting headache... . In many ways, he has also been the driving force of the B.O. regime's embrace of assassination as a centerpiece of its counterterrorism efforts. |
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