Washington actually knows that Al Qaeda is not what it makes it out to be -- a hierarchical organization with top-down command structure -- in its propaganda theater:
<blockquote> CIA shuts down secret unit that hunted for bin Laden Spy agency feels al Qaeda is now less hierarchical - Mark Mazzetti, New York Times Tuesday, July 4, 2006
(07-04) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The CIA has closed down a secret unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials said Monday.
The terrorist tracking unit, known inside the spy agency as "Alec station," was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned to other offices within the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, the officials said.
The decision is a milestone of sorts for the agency, which created the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush pledged to bring bin Laden to justice "dead or alive."
The realignment reflects a view that al Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, as well as growing concern about al Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. . . .
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