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...generally accepted among historians of the Qaeda phenomenon that Bin Laden's organization grew out of the "Arab Afghans," young men recruited from throughout the Muslim world to join the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. The program to recruit, arm, train and deploy these men involved three U.S.-allied intelligence agencies - those of Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia - working in conjunction with the CIA, which was coordinating America's own covert assistance to the Afghan jihad. It suited the Egyptians and Saudis to ship off the restive Islamist elements who might pose a domestic challenge to wage...
Highlights from six years of TIME's coverage of al-Qaeda from the 1998 embassy bombings to the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan...
...Assuming that [your plan] had been adopted, say, on Jan. 26, 2001, is there the remotest chance that it would have prevented 9/11?" Republican commissioner Slade Gordon asked Clarke last week. "No," Clarke replied. Killing bin Laden and bombing al-Qaeda training camps, as Clarke advocated, might have dealt the organization a setback. But most U.S. officials believe that the planning for the terrorist attacks was already so far advanced that such actions wouldn't have halted them. Some of the 9/11 hijackers were already in the U.S. in early 2000 laying plans...
BUZZ Craig Unger's investigative account of the secret relationship between the Bush family and relatives of Osama bin Laden caused a stir, and could provide fodder for the Dems later in the campaign...
Highlights from six years of TIME's coverage of al-Qaeda from the 1998 embassy bombings to the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan...