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...military campaign doesn't want the name "Operation Infinite Justice" because of its religious allusion, perhaps the mammoth investigation into the Sept. 11 terror attacks should adopt it, simply for accuracy. The name certainly fits, what with 7,000 FBI employees and countless state and local police officers following some 63,232 leads in the case. FBI Deputy Director Tom Pickard, a key figure in the case against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and the bureau's top man in New York, Barry Mawn, are running the investigation from Washington and two secret locations in Manhattan. Detectives and intelligence...
...Laden remains the biggest suspect. His organization's operations manual recommends that terrorists adopt the dress and manner of their host country, as most of the 19 hijackers did. And his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, is said to have the operational experience to plot something of the scale of Sept. 11. Al-Zawahri leads the Egyptian al-Jihad, the group responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981; a federal court in New York indicted al-Zawahri in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings...
...more pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu, who has returned to the public eye as a "terrorism expert." He's saying things that are very popular, such as that terrorism must be eradicated. Of course those are things nobody disagrees with, but the question is how. And Sharon is forced to adopt a measure of realpolitik...
Grasping for a model of how to better protect against terrorist hijackings, some commentators are suggesting that the U.S. adopt Israel's practices. That system has worked pretty well, especially given what an attractive target Israel's airports and airline are to terrorists. Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel's only international airport, has an enviable record. No flight out of there has ever been commandeered. A 1974 TWA flight originating in Tel Aviv was blown up, but only after taking on passengers in Athens. Only once, in 1968, was the national carrier, El Al, successfully hijacked...
Perhaps New York City will eventually adopt a similar solution: new structures quite unlike the old as well as a separate memorial. Whatever happens, says Hans Butzer, who co-designed Oklahoma City's memorial, it shouldn't happen in a hurry: "One of the things that proved to be so useful for Oklahoma City was the process by which the community tried to make sense of the tragedy. It was open and participatory. While it may be prudent for politicians to make bold statements or shows of courage and strength, it may not be wise in the long...