CIA Director George “Tenet told the Senate intelligence committee in a closed session on September 2 [1998] that ‘key elements’ of the CIA’s emerging secret strategy would include hitting bin Laden’s infrastructure, working with liaison intelligence services to ‘break up cells and carry out arrests,’ a plan to ‘recruit or expose his operatives,’ as well as pressure on the Taliban and efforts to improve ‘unilateral capability to capture him.’ ”
– Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 413