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...Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's two top leaders, remain unaccounted for, and U.S. intelligence sources suspect that both are still alive. So is Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban. Sources tell Time that Omar may be forging an alliance with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a particularly dangerous former mujahedin leader--and briefly Prime Minister of Afghanistan--who slipped back into the country around February. "Hekmatyar should be seen as quite as much a worry as Omar," says a Western intelligence official in Kabul. "If the two are cooperating, then the danger of a growth in terrorist attacks...
What all this adds up to is a strong suspicion that we are not doing too little about terrorism: we are probably doing too much. Our initial instincts are overly risk averse; the danger probably looms larger than it should. A crazed terrorist's next move is going to be a surprise: the burdens we impose on ourselves out of hindsight from the last episode are unlikely to be the ones hindsight will recommend after the next one. We can be skeptical about the warnings of terrorism "experts." They have a psychological or even financial interest in erring...
...Israeli army could expel from the West Bank the brother and sister of the Palestinian organizer of a suicide bombing and force them to live in the Gaza Strip. The judges ruled that a relative of a terrorist could be forced from home only if there was a danger to Israeli security, not just to deter others. International human-rights groups and Palestinian officials decried the decision as authorizing the use of collective punishment...
...doctrines of containment, deterrence and maintaining the stability of an imperfect world. While the new hawks are prepared to tolerate a degree of instability - in the Middle East, for example, as a result of an attack on Iraq - in order to eliminate what they identify as the primary danger, many of the old "realists" fear such instability could be even more dangerous. Other powers - China, India or Israel - may be tempted to pursue their own version of "preemption" in their regional conflicts, and the U.S. will have to be ready to commit American lives and treasure for extended periods...
...sanction any expansion of the peacekeeping mission beyond the 4,000 ISAF troops currently in the capital has earned Karzai the unkind nickname "Mayor of Kabul," since his writ doesn't run much beyond the city limits. Even there, some U.S. foreign policy experts believe he's in danger both from the Pansjiris and from the increasingly confident anti-Karzai jihadis...