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...against terror replaced the cold war as the new organizing principle for world politics? Or will it be back to business as usual for the international community once Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network are defeated? On the face of it, a lot has changed since Sept. 11. For starters, the U.S., Russia, Pakistan, India and even China are all on the same side. And despite concerns about civilian casualties, most Muslim countries have supported?or at least not openly opposed?the U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan. But this unity may be difficult to sustain...
...bin Laden is killed or captured and his Afghan network destroyed, argues John Chipman, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, "maintaining the impression of a clear and present danger will become more challenging, yet the requirement to create a political, economic, intelligence and legal infrastructure to defeat terrorism persists...
...terrorist attack on the heart of the global financial system. Some politicians have gone so far as to use the attacks to discredit the movement. Clare Short, Britain's Secretary of State for International Development, told the Times: "Their demands turned out to be very similar to those of bin Laden's network...
When it turned out that as many as 15 of the 19 suspected hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, alarm bells rang in Washington and Riyadh. Although Osama bin Laden himself is a Saudi - or, was, until the government stripped him of his nationality in 1994 - the Kingdom has never been seen as a breeding ground for terrorists...
...officials say that it is unfair to blame the country for fomenting terror simply because some of the hijackers were born and raised in the Kingdom. There is some truth in that. Saudi intelligence officials tell TIME that no more than 50 Saudis are thought to be allied with bin Laden in Afghanistan and that his al-Qaeda network in the Kingdom is very small...