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...court. The charges the U.S. filed against him, detailed in a six-count federal indictment unsealed last week, certainly sounded explosive, centering on the young man's alleged talk that he was ready to kill the President, by either shooting him in the street or setting off a car bomb. But like a number of other high-profile U.S. terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 that have grabbed big headlines only to quietly fizzle or stall in trial--from alleged terrorist flight student Zacarias Moussaoui and accused dirty bomber Jose Padilla to the Detroit sleeper cell and former enemy combatant Yaser Hamdi...
...Last week, however, the government dramatically changed its strategy. Police announced the arrest of scores of suspected militants in two days; they allegedly included several in possession of explosives and bomb-making equipment, as well as a professor of Arabic named Mohammed Asadullah Al Galib whom Bangladeshi authorities have accused of having ties to militants in the Middle East and Asia. Officials also banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (J.M.B.) and the suddenly acknowledged J.M.J.B., accusing these two organizations of "a series of murders, robberies, bomb attacks, threats and various kinds of terrorist acts," and of "trying to create social unrest...
...Labeling the Insurgency In "Hunt For the Bomb Factories," about the massive weapons depots around Baghdad [Feb. 7], TIME referred to "nationalist fighters" who use the arms for their deadly operations. You should reserve the term nationalist for the millions of brave and determined Iraqis who risked their lives to demonstrate their commitment to a new, democratic Iraq by voting in the election. The choice of bullets over ballots is being made not by nationalists but by foreign and homegrown jihadists, Baathists and insurgent Sunnis with a vested interest in holding on to a disproportionate share of the power...
KHAN'S SALE OF NUCLEAR SECRETS AND A complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb. That smuggling operation took place under the nose of the CIA and other global-intelligence agencies. But what country did President Bush go after for hiding weapons of mass destruction? Iraq, a Middle Eastern country that didn't have the Bomb. Given that track record, there is no reason to feel confident that Khan is safely under house arrest in Islamabad...
KHAN'S ACTIONS HAVE RAISED MANY questions about Pakistan's involvement. The illicit dealing in nuclear-bomb materials would not have been possible without the complicity of Pakistan's political and military establishment. And it seems quite possible that some nuclear secrets may even have reached al-Qaeda...