Word: antiterror
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...years, European antiterror investigators have had evidence that fanatics were preparing new forms of terrorism. In May 1997, an Algerian extremist in London was arrested in possession of a scientific work on botulism. During the 1998 dismantling of a militant Islamist network in Belgium, police found on one of the leaders a document detailing the military applications of botulism toxin in aerosol form. The bin Laden operatives arrested in Brussels after Sept. 11 were known associates of some of those apprehended in the 1998 raid...
...paradox is that standing so close to Bush has given Blair a lot of running room. Flying to the U.S. on Sept. 20, he phoned Iran's President Mohammed Khatami to explore whether Iran might join the antiterror coalition and worked out a deal to send his Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to Tehran; then he uncorked the plan to Bush over dinner. Bush was surprised, but immediately suggested that Straw tell the Iranians they could have a new relationship with Washington if they renounced terror. Blair knows from his travels that many Arabs who disdain Osama bin Laden's terror...
Palestinian security officials tell TIME that hard-liners within Hamas promote the idea of breaking its tradition of targeting Israelis only and starting to hit Americans to show support for bin Laden and solidarity with Afghans. COINCIDENCE? Nabil Al-Marabh, the Boston cabdriver arrested in the post-Sept. 11 antiterror dragnet, is a subscriber of the Globe, a tabloid published from the Florida building exposed to anthrax. SMALL AND FLEET: Small airlines get more secure faster. Mesa Airlines, based in Phoenix, Ariz., was first to put trained guards on flights, while mini-carriers Frontier and JetBlue had reinforced cockpit doors...
Last Tuesday the White House circulated an Executive Order outlining Ridge's powers. Senior Administration sources tell TIME the draft order will not give Ridge direct control over the counterterrorism budgets in other agencies, which could be key to shaping the antiterror bureaucracy. Moreover, Pentagon sources say Downing, word of whose likely appointment was leaked by Bush aides more than a week ago, has had second thoughts about taking the job because the powers he expected to be granted have been trimmed. The new office, says a senior Administration aide, "is being set up for failure...
...brutality of Christendom's efforts to conquer the Holy Land from the Muslims in the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries is not forgotten in the Middle East (making President Bush's early use of the word crusade to describe America's antiterror effort an unfortunate choice). An even greater sore is the sense that, in the centuries since, so much dignity has been lost, and to an inferior people. In Islamic belief, Muhammad is God's last prophet; he built upon the revelations of Moses and Jesus to propound a superior, perfect faith. But the world that...