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08/11/2004:

"Bush Team on Defensive Over al-Qaeda Leak"

WASHINGTON - One of the greatest coups in Washington's nearly three-year war against al-Qaeda has suddenly turned sour with reports the White House prematurely exposed the identity of a key source whose contacts and communication with the terrorist group's operational masterminds had yet to be fully exploited.

The source, 25-year-old computer wizard Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, had been co-operating with Pakistani police and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since he was quietly detained in Lahore on Jul. 12, until the 'New York Times' published his name last Tuesday after receiving a ''background'' briefing by the White House.

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