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When some 2,000 al-Qaeda fighters appeared to slip the dragnet at Tora Bora last December, the American forces learned a valuable lesson: If you want to get things done in Afghanistan, do them yourself. That's why when it traced a group of some 500 suspected bin Laden loyalists to a cave network in the Shahi Kot mountain range in Paktia province, the U.S. last weekend sent 1,000 of its own men - together with 200 special forces troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway - to take a leading role in the ground offensive. Although...
...tool to exact revenge on former lovers, business partners or government officials. State newspapers have urged tense citizens to adopt a Zen-like attitude?even get professional help should they be feeling too stressed. Worried by the increased violence, the government has beefed up the police force. A dragnet has nabbed some bombers. In the northeastern city of Shijiazhuang, law-enforcement officials put to death a laid-off worker who set off explosions that killed 108 people last March. But they also executed a woman who had unwittingly sold ammonium nitrate to the bomber. Her crime: peddling unlicensed fertilizer. Between...
Osama bin Laden may be contemplating his "martyrdom" in a cave atop Afghanistan's White Mountains. Or he may be thousands of miles away, smugly congratulating himself for having eluded the U.S. dragnet. Either way, America's battle with al Qaeda is far from over...
...this all worth it? Much of the FBI?s investigation seems to be a fishing expedition. The dragnet that picked up over 1,200 people - 641 of whom are still in custody - seems to have netted a lot of people guilty of minor immigration offenses but little else. Justice officials have admitted that only two dozen have any real, demonstrable terrorism links. As for the random interviews, shouldn?t the feds be working harder to develop ties with the Muslim community, rather than casting a suspicious eye on them? They need good relations to pick up informants and tips...
...example: Was Mohammed Bensakhria, an Algerian arrested in June by Spanish police, bin Laden's key European lieutenant? If so, is there an American equivalent--and has he been picked up in the dragnet after the attacks? Did al-Qaeda's reputed training-camp chief Abu Zubaydah leave Afghanistan before Sept. 11, as European officials believe, and if so, where is he and what is he doing...