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...ways of viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One—that which Mr. Rashid espouses in his article—portrays Israel as an oppressive force that brutally persecutes the Palestinian people. The other, the one I was raised with, describes Israel as a peaceful place constantly under attack by terrorist groups dedicated to its utter annihilation. However, as a rational person, I can understand that neither of these discourses accurately describes the situation. Yet one-sided voices like Mr. Rashid’s (and certainly a plethora of others that are ideologically opposed, yet equally uncompromising) do nothing...
...would bin Laden claim credit for a failed attack? The point of terrorism is to carry out your threats - that's what terrifies people. Take Lebanon's Hizballah, an organization whose early days were steeped in terrorism: it made a point of never botching an attack, bombing or kidnapping. So when Hizballah said it was not going to stop until it drove the West out of Lebanon, that threat carried a lot of weight. And the credibility of Hizballah's threat convinced U.S. President Ronald Reagan that Lebanon was lost, which prompted him to withdraw the Marines who were stationed...
...last major successful attack laid at the doorstep of al-Qaeda occurred nearly five years ago - the 2005 bombings on London's mass-transit system. But even in that instance, no one is certain that al-Qaeda was behind it. All we know is that the plot was somehow hatched in Pakistan, but the identity of the mastermind remains a matter of conjecture. Al-Qaeda certainly never provided proof that it had either foreknowledge or control of the attack...
...same is true for the Northwest Airlines bombing attempt: there's not a shred of evidence that bin Laden's al-Qaeda had anything to do with it. And the fact that bin Laden in his statement provided no inside detail of the attack pretty much says he wasn't involved. The Northwest attempt was homegrown, the would-be suicide bomber recruited in either Nigeria or Britain, the explosive device made in Yemen. His handlers call themselves al-Qaeda in Yemen, but there's no evidence that this group takes orders from the al-Qaeda leadership in Pakistan's tribal...
...radical resistance to the government - had decided it wanted to participate in the vote, having been shut out of political power by boycotting the last major election. Now, nearly two score people were dead and U.S. Apache helicopters were patrolling the air in the aftermath of another coordinated attack on major targets in the capital...