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T he Central Intelligence Agency couldn’t believe its good fortune as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti walked through the door of a white house at the end of a dirt road in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The house was located about an hour and a half north of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. al-Kuwaiti wasn’t hard to miss. On the back of his SUV’s spare tire cover was an image of a white rhinoceros. The CIA, the spy agency of the United States, had been tracking the SUV and al-Kuwaiti for months. Agents knew al-Kuwaiti was an important member of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the 9/11 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed more than 3,000 people in 2001. He was a top courier who carried messages between the I ntroduction : M ission B riefing

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