CIA Director Porter Goss, under growing criticism as saying his agency seems failing to penetrate al Qaeda network, on Tuesday insisted that "we know more than we're able to say publicly'' about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
In a television interview, Goss said al Qaeda leaders Bin Laden and al-Zarqawi haven't been found "primarily because they don't want us to find them and they're going to great lengths to make sure we don't find them." "We're applying a lot of efforts to find out where they are,'' he added. According to Goss, the CIA knows "a good deal more'' about the men "than we're able to say publicly.''
Goss said one of the hardest task of the CIA is to "penetrate into some of the sanctuary areas whether harsh terrain or at the heart of a city, in a ghetto or slum area where people don't regularly go.''
