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...Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians. "America's policy choices have consequences," the Commission notes. "Right or wrong, it is simply a fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world." Bin Laden has constantly sought to justify his attacks on the U.S. in light of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hoping to shackle the widespread Muslim identification with the Palestinians to his own agenda. The war on terror is, the 9/11 Commission notes, fundamentally, a battle for the hearts and minds...
Kristol criticized Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., contrasting the “broad conclusions” President Bush drew from the terrorist attacks with the “narrow conclusions” of Kerry, who has emphasized the need to hunt Osama bin Laden himself rather than take on Middle Eastern states such as Iraq...
...Kerry is elected, Kristol claimed, Kerry will have no choice but to go after broader targets than bin Laden himself. Transatlantic relations will deteriorate more than ever when Kerry is unable to garner French and German support for American involvement in the Middle East, Kristol said...
That won't play in Washington. The Administration wants Pakistan to do more to track bin Laden down but is afraid of endangering what help it does get fighting terrorism. A senior U.S. official mocked the Pakistani offensive as "7,000 to 10,000 Pakistani troops courageously battling 200 al-Qaeda guys to a standstill." As for bin Laden, he is still the figurehead, the most potent symbol of Islamic terrorism. And he still tops America's most-wanted list. --By Tim McGirk/ Kabul. With reporting by Syed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad and Timothy J. Burger/ Washington
...BIN LADEN: How cold is the trail...