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...clear direction.” The “continued success” of our military campaign, he argued, “is still somewhat in doubt.” More importantly, Daschle contended, we will have failed in the struggle against terror unless we capture Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden and “other key leaders of the al Qaeda network.We’re not safe until we have broken the back of al Qaeda, and we haven’t done that...
...Sunday night’s assault “the largest military operation we have engaged in thus far.” Through the continued bravery of our troops, hostile remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban are being gradually obliterated. Even if we don’t get bin Laden and Omar right away, this certainly does not mean that our entire campaign has “failed...
...Qaeda cell at the time of the Bojinka Plot, and has apparently become Khalifa's successor as al-Qaeda's point man in the insurgency-wracked south. Intelligence analysts tell TIME that while al-Qaeda assisted in the training of Abu Sayyaf in the mid-90s, bin Laden's network was closely monitoring the MILF as a larger and better organized vehicle for Islamic revolution. In the second half of the '90s the MILF, under the leadership of its chairman Hashim Salamat, was also developing its own contacts with Islamist and overtly jihadi groups across Southeast Asia and beyond. Indeed...
...Memo to Bin Laden: blame the Greeks! When the time comes to write the latest Afghan war's chronicles, one question will surely entertain historians. About 120,000 Soviet troops couldn't win victory there in 10 years, but a relative handful of Western soldiers took only a few weeks and a few Western casualties to wrest control of the country from the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. How come...
...Westerner's triumphalism - which it is - the author hastens to assure readers that he does not believe the West has a monopoly on individual bravery or strategic genius. It's just that culture and history have made Westerners more skilled on the killing fields. And in a passage Osama bin Laden (or Japanese militarists) might have profited from, Hanson points to the way in which the West's Greek-originated ethical ideas generate a murderous indignation: "We in the West call the few casualties we suffer from terrorism and surprise 'cowardly,' the frightful losses we inflict through open and direct...