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...last summer." Attacks continue. In April, a truck bomb--now thought to be the work of Islamic terrorists with links to al-Qaeda, the network headed by Osama bin Laden--crashed into a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, killing 19, including 14 German tourists. On May 8, an apparent suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan, pulled his car up beside a military bus loaded with French contract workers, exploded the car and killed 14. Those waiting nervously for a second al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. may have forgotten: it already happened. Last December, shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to blow...
That was the third huge mistake--and a somewhat baffling conclusion to draw, given the evidence at hand. In spring of 2001, Ahmed Ressam, the "millennium bomber," was on trial in Los Angeles, charged with being part of a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport and other locations at the end of 1999. In her press conference last week, Rice conceded that in 2001 the FBI "was involved in a number of investigations of potential al-Qaeda personnel operating in the United States...
...days before he boarded United Airlines Flight 63 last December 22, accused Al-Qaeda shoe-bomber Richard Reid wrote what federal prosecutors say was a farewell email to his mother. "What I am doing is part of the ongoing war between Islam and disbelief, (and as such a duty upon me as a Muslim)," reads one part of the letter , excerpts of which were disclosed in a brief filed in federal court earlier today by Justice Department prosecutors in Boston. Prosecutors say that Reid wrote, "The reason for me sending you [a "will"] is so that you can see that...
...confessed pipe bomber's 3,000-mile cross-country crime spree, which injured six and dredged up painful memories of everything from anthrax to the Unabomber, ended last week with Helder's arrest on an empty stretch of Nevada interstate highway. By turning on the cell phone in his car and dispatching a series of letters to his family and a student newspaper, Helder had ensured his arrest. The knottier problem is divining his motives. Far from fitting the usual profile of an angry loner, the smiling young suspect in the Kurt Cobain T shirt was an easygoing student...
...Palestinians had an army that could flatten Jewish settlers' homes, F-16 fighters that could pound Tel Aviv, Apache helicopters that could "surgically" remove any Israeli or Jewish leader not to their liking, would any Palestinian youth choose to become a suicide bomber? Killing oneself in defense of a cause has been tried by desperate people for centuries. Instead of concentrating on the Palestinians' suicide bombing, the Israelis would be better served by rooting out the causes of such desperation, acknowledging the Palestinians' right to freedom from occupation and giving the Palestinians back their land. NAJWA KHURI-BULOS Amman...