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...Doha Mosque in Bethlehem last week, the imam broadcast a blaring message through the loudspeakers on the minaret: "We are all Osama bin Laden." Washington has a tough job to turn down the volume. - With Reporting by Aharon Klein/Jerusalem and Jamil Hamad/A-Ram
Even without specific intelligence, Washington officials believe the general threat level will remain high for the foreseeable future. That's in part because of bin Laden. Administration officials believe he may have surreptitiously issued a Go order for a second strike in his videotaped message broadcast Oct. 7. Intelligence sources tell TIME that analysts scrutinizing the video have zeroed in on one sentence at the end: "I swear to God that America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels depart the land of Muhammad." A former al-Qaeda follower...
...month on the job, Beers has ideas for making the American case--increasing cultural-exchange programs, lining up officials to appear on Arab media and perhaps getting agencies to develop pro-American ads for Arab TV. But she has few tools at her disposal. The government's biggest broadcast arm, Voice of America, has a mandate of objectivity--employees detest the term propaganda--and while it broadcasts into Afghanistan in several regional languages, its proselytizing is limited to the occasional editorial. The station came under criticism for airing excerpts of an interview with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. VOA staff...
...launched some short-run efforts in Afghanistan, aimed not so much at larger ideological points as at proving our niceness and making the country friendlier when U.S. soldiers come in. Commando Solo, an Air Force cargo plane converted into a $70 million flying radio and TV station, will broadcast messages to Afghan citizens that the attacks are aimed not at them but at the Taliban. TIME has learned that the CIA is providing portable radios that will be air-dropped or trucked in so Afghans can listen to what Commando Solo is broadcasting. An Army PSYOPS unit has printed hundreds...
AILING. RUSH LIMBAUGH, 50, conservative radio commentator; from a rare inner-ear ailment that has rendered him virtually deaf. Limbaugh told his 20 million listeners that he planned to continue to broadcast--if necessary, without callers. "All I've lost is my ability to hear," he said. "It doesn't mean I've lost my ability to communicate...