In recent months Mr. Rumsfeld has challenged Mr. Tenet's authority by proposing a new position at the Pentagon, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, and by setting up his own intelligence unit to search for Iraq's links to terrorists.
Last October, an article in the Times reported that Rumsfeld had ordered up an intelligence operation "to search for information on Iraq's hostile intentions or links to terrorists" that might have been overlooked by the C.I.A.
The country's high court on Friday ordered police and the state intelligence agency to search for Itai Dzamara, a former journalist who last year staged sit-in protests demanding the resignation of President Robert Mugabe.
American officials have been looking in those two nations, mounting patrols in the Arabian Sea to prevent escapes and using intelligence contacts to search in North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Asia.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his senior advisers have assigned a small intelligence unit to search for information on Iraq's hostile intentions or links to terrorists that the nation's spy agencies may have overlooked, Pentagon officials said today.
The site, rolled out last week, relies on artificial intelligence technology to search images on the Web, and serve up goods for sale that visually match items on a shopper's wish list.
Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about the F.B.I.'s use of German intelligence information to search for additional hijacking suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks misstated the dollar equivalent of 2,000 German marks, the sum transferred to a Florida bank as a down payment to a flight school.
Correction: October 2, 2001, Tuesday Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about the F.B.I.'s use of German intelligence information to search for additional hijacking suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks misstated the dollar equivalent of 2,000 German marks, the sum transferred to a Florida bank as a down payment to a flight school.
