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...these challenges, the enduring potency of Islamic fanaticism may be the most difficult. To its credit, the Administration has never claimed that the struggle against terrorism would be anything other than long and arduous. Yet the success of the bombing campaign in Afghanistan, coupled with the arrest of such key al-Qaeda leaders as Ramzi Binalshibh, who allegedly handled the logistics for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, led some to look on the bright side. Nobody pretended that al-Qaeda was finished. But there was quite recently a sense that it might be capable of only...
...precise chain of events leading up to the arrest remains vague, but apparently someone called the sniper tip line Wednesday night claiming responsibility for the sniper attacks and urged police to "check out Montgomery." An investigator thought to look beyond Montgomery County, Maryland, where many of the shootings occurred, to Montgomery, Alabama, where police are still looking into a fatal robbery that took place on September 21st...
...week earlier, a fight between two college students at a Central Square bar resulted in the death of one and the arrest of another for manslaughter...
Person of the Week A nation with a largely Muslim population, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri ignored the warnings about Islamic extremism. But with the dead still being counted after the bombings in Bali, terror has been laid at her doorstep. With the long-awaited arrest of alleged Jemaah Islamiah leader Abubakar Ba'asyir, is "Mom" finally getting tough...
...government ignored warnings from the U.S. that groups linked to al-Qaeda were active in the country. (The British and Australian governments denied allegations they had been told about a possible attack in Bali.) President Megawati Sukarnoputri's administration had also repeatedly snubbed requests from Malaysia and Singapore to arrest and extradite Abubakar Ba'asyir, a radical cleric who is said to lead the extremist Jemaah Islamiah (JI) - the group the U.S. suspects of being behind the Bali bombing. The day before he was due for interrogation, Ba'asyir fainted at a press conference and checked into a hospital...