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...comforting to blame the violence in Iraq on foreign fighters inspired by the likes of Osama bin Laden, but it could also be self-deluding. To be sure, bin Laden has urged his followers to head for Iraq to wage jihad, and hundreds may have answered his call. It may well be that some of the suicide terror strikes on soft targets are the work of foreigners, the Baathists being a secular lot who prefer to live to fight another day (as their surrender of Baghdad six months ago amply illustrates). Nobody really knows precisely who is behind the terror...
...first debate between Sharpton and Bush, I’ll be wearing a T-shirt that says ‘Where Is bin Laden?’” the Reverend proclaimed to raucous applause from a full-house of students, faculty and community members...
...suspected al-Qaeda operatives, both Arabs, on Philippine soil. One of them, 36-year-old Jordanian Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil, was arrested on Sept. 25 in the city of Zamboanga while attempting to sell 14 properties owned by Alice Yabo, the second wife of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. He ran a number of Islamic charities in the Philippines until the country's authorities barred him from entry in 1994 on suspicion of providing funding to Islamic militants and possible involvement in a plot to blow up 12 U.S. airliners over the Pacific. Abdeljalil...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wants to boost his nation's international profile. The latest audio-tape message attributed to Osama bin Laden shows he may have succeeded: the al-Qaeda leader named Japan?which has pledged $5 billion in aid to Iraq and is preparing to send troops in December?as one of six U.S. allies targeted for future terrorist attacks. It is the first time al-Qaeda has said Japan is in its sights...
...hiring extra security," says Shinsuke Shimizu, director of the Foreign Ministry's International Counter-terrorism Cooperation division, "and Japanese residents in Southeast Asia are making contingency plans." The Japanese government has even distributed animated videotapes to expat Japanese with advice on how to survive a kidnapping or hijacking. Bin Laden has given Japan something it has happily lacked since World War II: an enemy...