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...Laden and al-Qaeda may have learned, by violent experience, to pre-empt and harness the new fanaticism. In late 1995, bin Laden's compound in Khartoum was attacked by gunmen believed to be Takfiri. A Sudanese friend of bin Laden's who questioned the surviving attacker said, "He was like a maniac, more or less like the students in the U.S.A. who shoot other students. They don't have very clear objectives." By the time al-Qaeda had resettled in Afghanistan, ideological training was an integral part of the curriculum, according to a former recruit who went...
...talk about the big picture," he told her. "We need to tell the people that an act of war has been committed. This is a different kind of enemy than we have ever faced, and they need to know that." That day, he also moved quickly to pre-empt any possibility of a replay of the fractious congressional debate before the Persian Gulf War, though such a debate was wholly unlikely, given the galvanic effect of the terrorist acts. He demanded authorization of war powers before Congress could demand the right to supply one. Within two days, both houses...
...made sure the MCCAIN-EDWARDS-KENNEDY bill reached the Senate floor first. But many Republicans hope to modify it with large chunks of the rival BREAUX-FRIST-JEFFORDS bill (or kill it outright with amendments). Kennedy will have to budge on some issues--like whether the bill will pre-empt state laws. Bush hopes the bill gets weakened before it reaches the conference committee, leaving room for compromises he wants...
...starters, Washington is a friendlier town. Attorney General John Ashcroft opposed the Clinton suit when he was a Senator and shows little zeal for prosecuting the industry further. Another round of federal excise taxes, championed by Clinton, is not in the offing. To pre-empt harsher regulations and win protection against future lawsuits, Philip Morris is even asking Congress to grant the FDA limited oversight. Such longtime foes as Illinois Senator Dick Durbin are nonplussed. "It's laughable," he says, referring to the DOJ's settlement talks. "In a real negotiation, they could have included [FDA] regulation with teeth...
...made a pre-emptive strike of its own. It announced that taxes in general would come down, with the corporate levy slashed to 10% over the next few years and the top income tax rate falling from last year's 20% to 15%. Universally low taxes should pre-empt claims of ring-fencing...