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This was key. Arafat is not just the man who refused to make peace with Israel--Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., has called Arafat's rejection of Israel's peace offer in 2000-01 not just "a tragedy" but "a crime"--he is the man who uses his power to make sure that no one else can make peace with Israel. By demanding new leadership, the Bush Administration was grounding future Middle East diplomacy in realism. Axiom A: Allowing Israel to fight the terrorism would reduce the terrorism. Axiom B: Shunning and thus diminishing Arafat...
...most prominent, if unlikely, advocate of substantial change in the Arab world is Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud. Although he has been dabbling with change since becoming the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia several years ago, the Iraq crisis has made him a man in a hurry. Last January, the Saudis sent Abdullah's reform proposal to the Arab League. It called for "political participation," "building Arab capabilities," "an Arab common market" and "a comprehensive Arab awakening." He proposed that states be jettisoned from the Arab League if they didn't adopt principles of reform, democracy...
...moderate Islam, one that Lévy himself sees in a battle to the death with radical believers from al-Qaeda. He follows the journalist as he pursues a shadowy figure named Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a former Brooklyn-based imam whom Lévy calls a "guru" of bin Laden's. He meets Pearl's contacts, spends time in the unheated, two-room hovel where Pearl was held and murdered nine days after his kidnapping. "I decided the best way to tell this story was step by step, even if that meant contradictions," he says during an interview...
Pakistani intelligence officials patiently tracked the potato truck all the way from the tribal hinterlands near the Afghanistan border to the port city of Karachi. Then they pounced, capturing a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 pounds of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose details of the secret financial networks used by al-Qaeda...
...unravel the inner workings of al-Qaeda. FBI sources say Attash, a key suspect in the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, attended a meeting that January in Kuala Lumpur where al-Qaeda leaders mapped out the Sept. 11 attacks. And because Attash once worked as one of bin Laden's bodyguards?until losing a foot several years ago in Afghanistan?investigators hope to press him about the whereabouts of his boss...