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...Washington and New York began the lengthy recovery process, the rest of the nation slowly moved towards normalcy. Planes diverted and grounded during Tuesday’s emergency measures were permitted to finish their connecting paths yesterday, although all other civilian air traffic was prohibited...
...State and Justice and all the federal office buildings. Secret Service officers had automatic weapons drawn as they patrolled Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Police-car radios crackled with reports that rogue airplanes had been spotted over the White House. The planes turned out to be harmless civilian aircraft that air-traffic controllers at National Airport were scrambling to help land so they could clear the air space over the nation's capital...
...planners call "asymmetrical warfare," in which an enemy who can't match America's planes, ships and missiles uses unconventional methods to strike. The prime suspects in the latest outrage - the networks associated with Osama Bin Laden - have no fixed address or military installations of their own, much less civilian infrastructure. The fugitive Saudi terrorist financier may be sheltered by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia, but his is very much an independent operation rather than anybody's proxy...
...enclaves controlled by Arafat today don't form much of a state, they're a perfect base for insurgency. Oslo has given the Palestinians guns, plenty of them, and zones of control in which their enemy enters only for short periods in heavily-armed contingents. That, together with a civilian population overwhelmingly supportive of the anti-occupation cause has created perfect conditions for guerrilla warfare - something the PLO never had in exile. In the 70s and 80s, there were isolated terrorist attacks and the occasional kamikaze guerrilla sent across the border on a hang-glider; while in the West Bank...
...Even for the non-suicidal insurgent, the allure of arms often trumps the bleak career alternatives of civilian life. From Sierra Leone and Angola to Mozambique and Somalia, many of Africa's Cold War-era guerrilla armies simply mutated into bandit gangs whose only purpose was to protect and extend their business interests...