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...Bin Laden and the Bomb...Al-Qaeda's Cash...Moussaoui's Anthrax Test...Pop Goes the Jihad...What the World Thinks of America...Why Bush Shuns Arafat...Ashcroft vs. Doctors...Of Two Minds on Ecstasy...Milestones...14 Years Ago in TIME
Does Osama Bin Laden really have nuclear weapons? Speculation grew more heated last week, at least partly because reports were so wildly uneven. Case in point: bin Laden's declaration about having the Bomb lost something on its way to print in Pakistan but could be found in the translation. In the English-language daily Dawn, readers got the full blast: "We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us, we reserve the right to use them." But that's not what was available in the daily Ausaf, which is published in Urdu...
...Bin Laden's boasts and his condemnation of the U.N. did not win him any friends among the assembly. Taking the most notable shot was Prime Minister Mohammed Khatami of Iran. In an interview with the New York Times, Khatami discounted bin Laden's appeal among Muslims around the world and condemned the Sept. 11 attacks. And even as al-Qaeda tries to link its struggle to that of Palestinians against Israel, Khatami said Tehran would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Palestinian people chose to do so. A politically cagey if, but still a big step...
...Sept. 11 attacks, fly the day before from New York to Portland, Maine? The answer may be getting clearer in the wake of the feds' domestic shutdown last week of Al-Barakaat, a financial network based in Dubai--with at least six U.S. storefronts--accused of financing Osama bin Laden. The purported purpose of the U.S. sites was for Somali emigres to wire money back home. But two senior Bush Administration officials tell TIME that bin Laden was an Al-Barakaat founder and that Al-Barakaat's chief, Ahmed Nur Ali Jamale, steered money--possibly tens of millions of dollars...
...intelligence also targeted the firm Al-Taqwa, based in Switzerland. Egyptian-born owner Youssef Nada denies bin Laden ties, but U.S. officials tell TIME that Al-Taqwa manages funds for al-Qaeda. As for Blessed Relief--a Saudi charity identified as a funder of al-Qaeda--U.S. officials reject claims by one of its founders that it has been dormant for five years. Sources say intelligence shows the charity financed movements of people, money and weapons in Bosnia as recently...