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...Pakistan's new military government. At least five rockets were fired Friday in a coordinated attack on two U.S. facilities and a U.N. building in Islamabad. One person was slightly injured. And you don't have to look very far for suspects: America's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, is still hiding just across the border in Afghanistan, and the attack occurred two days before U.N. sanctions take effect against that country for the refusal by its ruling Taliban movement to hand over the Saudi financier-terrorist. Pakistan has long been the Taliban's primary sponsor, and Bin Laden...
...Washington won't be particularly surprised at coming under fire in Islamabad, which has long been considered one of the most vulnerable U.S. diplomatic outposts; in fact, most American diplomatic personnel were evacuated from the country as a precaution before last year's cruise missile strikes on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps. But the incident is a major challenge to the authority of General Parvez Musharraf, who has done his best to assure the West that his coup will stabilize Pakistan. Foreign observers had been uncertain of how Musharraf planned to deal with the country's fundamentalist movement and with...
...back to haunt the White House. The New York Times on Wednesday carried a detailed account of how the Clinton administration decided to bomb the Al Shifa chemical plant in 1998 despite warnings by senior intelligence and security personnel that there was insufficient evidence linking it to either Osama Bin Laden or the manufacture of chemical weapons. Under pressure from international protest and media inquiries, administration sources have backpedaled substantially on both claims since the August 1998 strike, which, together with a similar raid on Bin Laden's Afghanistan camps, was launched in retaliation for the bombing of U.S. embassies...
...embassy bombings, to be seen to be doing something," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They were experimenting with cruise missiles as a low-risk way of dealing with these issues, but the Sudan strike showed how that can backfire. We also have to ask whether by attacking Bin Laden ineffectively, we've actually boosted his importance." To be sure, painstaking police and intelligence work by U.S. agencies and their foreign allies has netted Bin Laden operatives all over the world over the past year, and may have hurt the terrorist financier a lot more than the headline-grabbing missile...
...fact, Bin Laden may have had trouble endearing himself to Pakistan?s new military rulers even without international pressure, because Sunni Muslim fighters trained in Bin Laden?s camps in Afghanistan have been fomenting communal violence against Shi?ite Muslim communities inside Pakistan. The Taliban, predictably, lashed out at the U.N. resolution and vowed to defy international pressure to hand over the man accused of masterminding last year?s deadly attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa. Nonetheless, the movement is anxious to consolidate its control over Afghanistan and normalize relations with the international economy ?- a quest that...