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Foreword: Everyone reading this should stop. Go buy a CD called The Modern Lovers. It'll be about $8 with tax; it's always in the bargain bin over at Newbury Comics. If you care in the least about rock and roll, you should own this album...
...Osama Bin Laden won't be playing dominoes with the Unabomber any time soon. His hosts, the Taliban, are distinctly unimpressed by the $5 million bounty offered by the U.S., and vowed Thursday that the terrorist mastermind wouldn't be extradited. Still, money does talk in Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia's talks loudest: "The Taliban can't operate without Saudi funding, particularly now that they're planning a spring offensive against their opposition," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Saudi Arabia is putting immense pressure on the Taliban to expel Bin Laden, and there's a good chance...
...catch, though, is that the Saudis are reluctant to see Bin Laden tried. "The Saudis may have plenty of grounds to try him at home, but politically they can't afford to," says McGirk. "They certainly don't want him tried in the U.S., which would turn him into a martyr throughout the Muslim world and make the Saudi regime look bad." So even if the Taliban squeeze out Bin Laden, the Saudis would rather see him quietly disappear from the scene than turn up on CNN in an orange jumpsuit...
...There have been missteps on his watch. The Indian nuclear tests last May caught the agency by surprise. Critics complain that the CIA knew too little about the pharmaceutical plant the U.S. bombed in Sudan to prove it was producing chemical weapons for terrorist Osama bin Laden...
...honestly think in my soul, the reasons to not do this, the reasons to delay were so profound, that not delaying can only be seen as an issue for the President, that he simply wanted to stand up in Martha's Vineyard and say, `Terrorism is over, bin Laden is dead...