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...meaning of a term as apparently innocuous as "crusade" serves as a reminder of the complex geopolitical challenges involved in building and sustaining the broad coalition necessary to root out terrorism. That challenge is about a lot more than simply rounding up a posse to go into Afghanistan and arrest or kill Osama Bin Laden. President Bush may stir American feelings by invoking the image of a Wild Western "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster, but listen closely to Secretary of State Colin Powell: "Osama bin Laden is the chairman of the holding company, and within that holding company are terrorist...
...refugees want to leave, but many fear arrest in East Timor. Disinformation flourishes. According to church workers in camps around Betun, refugees are spreading rumors that Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has met with militia leaders to discuss reintegrating East Timor. Former militia commander Joanico Cezario admits refugees are used to shore up a "bargaining position." In early April the flow of returning refugees stalled after automatic-weapons fire hit border posts manned by Fijian and Australian peacekeepers, and grenade attacks were reported in three East Timorese villages. "Militias still have the power and the influence," says Father Edi Mulyono...
Right now the finger seems to point to Osama bin Laden harbored in Afghanistan by the Taliban government. Bin Laden has long been a worthy target for arrest, capture and trial, for planning and carrying out terrorist attacks. Afghanistan has long been a Cold War battleground upon which America and the Soviet Union maneuvered...
...Still, even if the U.S. manages to arrest some of those who planned the attack, and to destroy some of the infrastructure that made these attacks possible, there is no shortage, right now, of volunteers for suicide missions against Israel and its ally, the United States. The political context most likely to have provided both motive and personnel for the vicious terror strike will be left unchanged no matter how hard the U.S. hits in retaliation. The chilling reality is that this is a war that's just beginning...
...Kenneth Clarke, respectively. In the candidates' first head-to-head television debate, the fault line once again developed around Britain's relationship with Europe. Duncan Smith suffered a setback when he was forced to sack one of his campaigners for far-right links. SPAIN ETA Suspects Held Police arrested 13 suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA but said those held were not thought to be linked to a spate of recent bombings, including one at a tourist hotel in Salou or a boobytrapped toy that killed a woman and blinded her 10-month-old grandson. Interior Minister Mariano...