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...Bush began making his case for war with Iraq, his aides--particularly the hard-line ones--have pressed Tenet to join the march. For the President's war speech in Cincinnati last week, Bush aides badgered the CIA to declassify more intelligence on Saddam Hussein's ties to Osama bin Laden. As a result, Bush was able to disclose that "a very senior al-Qaeda leader received medical treatment in Baghdad this year" (intelligence sources tell TIME that it is a Jordanian operational commander named Abu Musab Zarqawi) and that "Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bombmaking and poisons...
...greatest on the question of whether Iraq and al-Qaeda are working together against the U.S. Some intelligence analysts accuse Bush of grasping at examples that imply an alliance while ignoring others that don't--like the fact that in the past the secular Saddam and the fundamentalist bin Laden have not been ideological soul mates. (Bin Laden offered to fight against Saddam when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991.) Complicating the fight is the fact that the spooks don't want to overlook evidence on Iraq--as they did with al-Qaeda--so they are trying to turn over every...
...defend a country against non--state-based forms of aggression. But to start a new war against Iraq is more like business as usual and not proof of a new way of thinking. At best, attacking Iraq may be explained as turning the rifle from a moving target--Osama bin Laden--and aiming at a more or less stationary Saddam. What the world truly needs is a strategy that fights hatred and nations' inferiority complexes through confidence-building measures in the fields of politics, economics and culture. That way the U.S. would acquire friends, and bin Laden would lose them...
...Wolfowitz: Bali a 'Wake-up Call' Indonesia's Own Bin Ladens Terror Hits Hard in Indonesia The Attack: In Their Own Words Assessing The Usual Suspects...
...liaise with Indonesian groups, had linked JI and specifically Abu Bakr Bashir, a charismatic cleric alleged to be JI's spiritual leader (a charge he denies; in fact he denies that JI exists) with terror plots. Bashir denies any connection with violence, but is openly supportive of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. And he blamed the Bali blast on the U.S., accusing it of trying to implicate Indonesians in terror. Even if they don't agree with him, Bashir has some defenders in high places - including Vice President Hamza Haz, who echoed Bashir's accusation that the Bali blast...