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...also an expression of America's legal and moral position in Iraq. Americans are riding roughshod over international laws designed to prevent such abuses. They put their prisoners of war outside the reach of all law, even U.S. justice. Meanwhile, the hatred that is so necessary for Osama bin Laden to reach his goal of a global holy war is radiating directly from Iraq. From bin Laden's viewpoint, the Iraq war must already be a greater success than the 9/11 attacks. Leendert D. De Rust Durbanville, South Africa...
With tradecraft like that, it is little wonder the CIA "never once even tried to infiltrate" al-Qaeda, according to Bamford. He says agents working at the CIA's vaunted Alec station, the shop inside the agency responsible for tracking and killing Osama bin Laden, seemed more interested in flying to Afghanistan and Paris to meet with various Afghan warlords who promised to provide details of bin Laden's whereabouts in exchange for bags full of cash. Bamford asserts that the CIA's Afghan assets never came through with very much on the Saudi terrorist, but the CIA kept them...
...hospital, where he remains in critical but improving condition. The killers escaped. Almost immediately, a website favored by al-Qaeda branded the journalists "dirty infidels." It was the latest episode in al-Qaeda's accelerating and increasingly successful campaign to wreak havoc in Saudi Arabia, the homeland of Osama bin Laden, by taking aim at foreigners working in the kingdom. Two days after the attack on the journalists, a hit squad believed to be linked to al-Qaeda gunned down Robert Jacobs, an American working on a contract to train the Saudi Arabian National Guard, outside his Riyadh home...
...regime continues to allow Saudi imams to rail against Crusaders and Jews in much the same manner that al-Qaeda does. When the country's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, blamed the Yanbu outrage on Zionists, reformers felt he was once again appeasing hard-line opinion. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., seemed to acknowledge his government's shortcomings last week when he publicly called for mobilization against al-Qaeda and an end to sympathy for the extremists. "Neither the government nor the citizens are yet prepared for this crucial, fundamental stage to winning this...
...usual mix of flippant comedy and moral outrage, the case for the prosecution in the left vs. Bush: the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamping down on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that the President had a chummy White House visit on Sept. 13, 2001, with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country 15 of the 19 hijackers had come, and that in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded, two dozen...