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Outside this dust-choked Taliban stronghold, sometimes called home by Osama bin Laden, exists a network of safe houses from which America’s most-wanted man allegedly masterminds attacks against U.S. interests. Having failed to bring bin Laden to justice through missile strikes and sanctions against Afghanistan’s government, Washington is now quietly playing down the Saudi exile’s image as America’s leading enemy, realizing, perhaps too late, that it has created a living martyr for millions of anti-Western Muslim militants. Full Story