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Missing from the indictment are allegations that Padilla planned to detonate a dirty bomb or blow up apartment buildings. Evidence for those charges came from captured al-Qaeda helmsmen Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, who have undergone the sort of coercive interrogation treatment, including waterboarding, that can induce people to lie. "It would have been very difficult to use that in court," said a Justice Department official. Expect pretrial skirmishes over such issues as access to classified information and, possibly, the effects of three years of isolation on Padilla's psyche. Said Patel: "He's been alone, with...
...necessarily. Although Al-Qaeda has not mounted another strike against the U.S. on the scale of the 9/11 attack, it has successfully used the Iraq war in its terrorist-recruiting drive. Led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian operative who directs many of the foreign jihadists, the Iraqi insurgency has attracted Islamic terrorists from around the world. But even without the provocation of Iraq, there's no reason to assume the terrorist threat to the U.S. would disappear. "Whether we pull out of Iraq or not," says a U.S. counterterrorism official, "al-Qaeda will still want...
Pentagon officials routinely characterize anti-insurgent operations around Iraq as great victories. But just as Operation Steel Curtain, targeting insurgents in towns near the Syrian border, wound down, fighters loyal to al-Qaeda's top man in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, popped up in Ramadi. The insurgents' ability to preserve and regenerate their forces is a hallmark of the war. The official American tally for the Nov. 17 battle in Ramadi: 33 insurgents killed, 1 Marine slightly wounded. But Blue Platoon knows it has not delivered a knockout punch...
...more troubling, it sets a disturbing precedent, that the U.S.’ moral imperative to act against international terrorism can justify a breaking of commitments to human rights. Exempting the CIA from any anti-torture measures effectively legalizes the types of behavior that led to the atrocities of Abu Ghraib, and so scandalized the U.S. public...
Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...