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...feel sufficient. Theologically, some Middle Eastern sheiks justify suicide bombings on the basis of Muslim medieval traditions, although most of their colleagues worldwide disagree. Politically, campaigns against Muslims in Bosnia, Albania, Chechnya and Israel create a nationalist desperation that can draw even secularists to pan-Islamic dreamer-schemers like bin Laden, especially when they can offer a checkbook and organizational savvy. Then there is globalization. When Islam stopped gaining territory in the Middle Ages, its thinkers developed mechanisms for coexisting with a permanent Western other. But to new theorists like bin Laden, globalization represents the end of that detente...
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...journalists"' first question was: "If you recapture all of Afghanistan, what will be your attitude to Osama bin Laden?" They didn't wait for an answer. One of the two French-speaking North African men detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself instantly and fatally wounding the man they had journeyed across the globe to meet: Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the ragtag Northern Alliance that is fighting a civil war against the ruling Taliban militia. Immediately, the finger of suspicion pointed to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist sheltered by the Taliban. But two days later the explosion...
...More Stories Special Issue: Day of Infamy How to Beat Bin Laden TIME/CNN Poll: America Is In a Military Mood The Day the FAA Stopped the World Update: Finding a Way to Go On Back to Business? TIME FOR KIDS...
...Many analysts suspect the attack on Massoud was a preemptive strike by bin Laden: anticipating retaliation against Afghanistan in the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, he had sought to deprive the U.S. of a powerful prospective ally. (Although Massoud's forces had initially insisted that he was alive in the face of contrary intelligence, on Saturday a spokesman finally confirmed that Massoud had died from wounds suffered in the attack.) A second theory posits that, by presenting the Taliban with the gift of Massoud's head before unleashing the carnage in America, bin Laden had buttressed...