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...Authorities have cast doubts on speculation that the terrorists were part of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, saying they appeared to be home-grown religious fanatics. Still, Monday's attack bore some of al-Qaeda's hallmarks. Though the size of the bombs was relatively small and they did not appear to be carried by suicide attackers, the operation featured simultaneous explosions designed to produce maximum headlines as well as casualties...
...most recent video releases by Osama bin Laden and Musab al-Zarqawi - and the reactions to them - reveal that the high-profile jihadist carpetbaggers may be finding it harder to maintain a following precisely in those places where local Islamist insurgencies should provide the most fertile ground. A videotape purporting to show Zarqawi musing on the state of the Iraqi insurgency surfaced on a jihadist web site on Tuesday, a day after a terror attack on the Egyptian resort town of Dahab killed at least 23 people and two days after the release of an Osama bin Laden audiotape urging...
...Huthaifa Azzam, a Jordan-based Palestinian Islamist and son of Osama bin Laden's erstwhile mentor in Afghanistan, Abdullah Azzam, who claims to be well-connected in Iraqi insurgent circles, said last month that Zarqawi had made "many political mistakes" and was now being confined to a military role. Others suspected that lowering his profile was a strategy to put an Iraqi face on even the Islamist element of the insurgency, recognizing that a good portion of the Sunni population was alienated by many of Zarqawi's tactics. Either way, the problem facing the likes of Zarqawi is plain...
SHERRY WESLEY, an employee at a Santa Ana, Calif., civic building to whom a homeless man handed a wallet with $900 that he had found in a nearby trash bin. Wesley tracked down the owner, who rewarded the man with...
...first to Franks and then joins a conference call with Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell. Focused as he has been on Iraq, the Secretary isn't preoccupied: his influence is felt across the board, on arms control, China policy, the North Korean crisis and the still fruitless hunt for bin Laden. He has backed the creation of the Homeland Security Department and jump-started a military command to support its work. But he drew the line when Congress pressed the President to place all U.S. intelligence assets, including military intelligence, under CIA control. Among those in the Bush inner circle...