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...This is a mortally male way of looking at the problem. There probably isn't enough money in the galaxy to hunt down every Muslim fanatic who wants to blow himself up for Allah, either. But we're giving it a try. Shouldn't we also try to be sure that cities like New York and Washington are prepared to deal with biological and chemical attacks; that the major ports - like Long Beach, Calif.--are protected; that nuclear-power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants are guarded? Apparently, there has been precious little progress on any of these fronts...
This is the high-voltage line of argument that could blow away skeptics' doubts--or blow holes in Bush's entire case. Strong evidence of a link between Iraq and terrorists would make it easy for allies--and nervous American citizens--to support a war, but it's the hardest allegation to prove. Bush, who plainly believes it, gave the charge its sharpest articulation yet in his State of the Union address: "Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al-Qaeda." Bush...
...blow came with the arrest last fall of the group's leader, Mullah Krekar, while he was passing through the Netherlands en route to Norway, where he is applying for asylum. Krekar, a Marxist turned cleric whose real name is Najmuddin Faraj and who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, flatly denies that his group has ties to al-Qaeda or Saddam. "I never had links with Saddam's family, government, party--not in the past, not now, not inside Iraq or outside," he told the BBC last week in Oslo. Ultimately, Kurdish officials are less impressed with the group...
...went home and picked up his brother's old vhs camera. "I started by filming sheep," he says. "Somehow sheep manage to pose very well." Now he lives in France, where he shot his film's more incendiary scenes. In Palestine, you can't get a movie permit to blow up an Israeli tank...
...authorities blame members of the former Taliban and al-Qaeda for the blast, and possibly a ruthless veteran of Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who seems to be consolidating power among the insurgents. In Kabul, police arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who allegedly planned to blow up the heavily fortified U.S. embassy, which is used by the international peacekeeping force. "The Taliban and al-Qaeda fled to Pakistan," says Abdul Raziq, an allied Afghan commander. "But now they're heading back." --By Tim McGirk