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INDICTED. RICHARD REID, 28, who packed explosives in his shoes in an apparent attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight; on nine counts, including attempted murder and the use of a weapon of mass destruction; in Boston. Reid, who is accused of receiving training from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison...
TIME: But Bush's goals appear to be a lot less ambitious than yours. BLAIR: [It's natural that] for America, where this atrocity occurred, these issues of getting Osama bin Laden, shutting down the al-Qaeda network, making sure the homeland is secure, are huge dominating issues. But Americans are providing 80% of the humanitarian aid [in Afghanistan], they hosted the first reconstruction conference, they've been extremely helpful in making sure the Northern Alliance agreed there had to be a broadly based regime...
TIME: In your conversations, does President Bush say, "Tony, I'm coming to your big agenda, just let me get Osama bin Laden first"? BLAIR: No, but what he does say, unprompted, is that the humanitarian mission in Afghanistan is important, and we need to make sure that Afghanistan is left in a proper state...
...wipe out Abu Sayyaf? Is that frustrating for you? It's complicated, as I think the world has seen in the problem of getting Osama bin Laden and wiping out al-Qaeda. We have been able to break the back of the Abu Sayyaf in the sense that where there used to be thousands [of members], now there are only hundreds. Just as Osama bin Laden has been able to reign, so has the most notorious of the Abu Sayyaf still been able to reign, and that's Abu Sabaya. Many, many people think that Basilan is a little island...
...Convention's articles was criticized by Bush advisers, who are adamant that the treaty does not apply to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners. The White House is worried that granting the detainees anything but a terrorist label will make it harder to interrogate them about Osama bin Laden's network. Nevertheless, at a National Security Council meeting today, they were expected to review the detainees' status...