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...Afghans who supplied the tapes told Robertson the video trove was recovered from a house formerly used by senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden. If the tape of the dog dying was indeed produced by al-Qaeda, it provides the first publicly available visual evidence that the group has tested chemical agents on live subjects. John Gilbert, a former U.N. and Pentagon chemical-weapons inspector who viewed the tapes, says the dog?s spasmodic reaction indicates that it might have been subjected to a nerve gas like sarin...
...Bin Laden is known to have tried to develop unconventional weapons: U.S. intelligence officials assert that while living in Sudan in the early ?90s, he tested nerve agents that could be dispensed by bombs or artillery shells. In early 2000, CIA Director George Tenet warned that bin Laden "operatives have trained to conduct attacks with toxic chemicals or biological toxins." The new video suggests how close they may be to pulling them...
...That's bad news for the party in power, which is why President Bush last week invited 240 people who agree with his economic policies to praise them at a forum in Waco, Texas. He talked of corrupt CEOs in terms he once reserved for Osama bin Laden, but offered little more than assurances that "we're the greatest nation on the face of the earth." The markets-which matter more than ever in politics now that nearly half of all U.S. households hold investments-were paying more attention to the downbeat noises coming out of the Federal Reserve...
...then there was al-Qaeda. The group had been born in Afghanistan when Islamic radicals began flocking there in 1979, after the Soviets invaded. Bin Laden and his closest associates had returned in 1996, when they were expelled from Sudan. Al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps were in Afghanistan, and bin Laden's forces and money were vital to sustaining the Taliban's offensives against Massoud...
...offensive against Massoud by the Taliban and al-Qaeda seemed likely. But the influence of al-Qaeda on the Taliban was proving deeply unpopular among ordinary Afghans, especially in the urban centers. "I thought at most 20% of the population supported the Taliban by early summer," says Vendrell. And bin Laden's power made Massoud's plea for outside assistance more urgent. "We told the Americans--we told everyone--that al-Qaeda was set upon a transnational program," says Abdullah Abdullah, once a close aide to Massoud and now the Afghan Foreign Minister. In April, Massoud addressed the European Parliament...