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Untangling this mess is mind numbing, and that's the idea. "When you look at the people and networks involved, you quickly realize that the apparent lack of structure and seemingly random intersection of operatives is very much intentional," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "They don't want police to be able to follow one person to another and follow the trail back up to someone calling the shots. In reality, it's a hell of a lot more amorphous than that...
...Laden has steadily extended his influence with the Taliban while it lets him turn Afghanistan into a training ground for terror. It was bin Laden, says Ahmed Rashid, longtime reporter and expert on the Taliban, who brought anti-Americanism to the nationalistic Taliban ideology. Intelligence sources say bin Laden's men have infiltrated the Taliban's top ministries, especially Virtue and Vice, where they are said to have argued vigorously for the destruction of the Buddhas. Russia's Foreign Ministry has even reported that bin Laden was unofficially serving as the Taliban's Defense Minister. Bin Laden has allied himself...
...chances of such an attack happening anytime soon are remote, most of the terrorism experts consulted by TIME agree. For starters, it takes a lot more money to build, research or steal a weapon of mass destruction than to hijack a plane or unleash a truck bomb. It also takes a lot more brainpower. Says Amy Smithson, a chemical and biological weapons expert at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington: "I can sit here and dream up thousands of nightmare scenarios, but there are a lot of technical and logistical hurdles that stand between us and those scenarios...
...Israeli press, some analysts see Sharon as being under more pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu, who has returned to the public eye as a "terrorism expert." He's saying things that are very popular, such as that terrorism must be eradicated. Of course those are things nobody disagrees with, but the question is how. And Sharon is forced to adopt a measure of realpolitik...
...French experience also shows that the commitment level of terror recruits is far from uniform, and that opens a gap exploited by the authorities. "The ones that truly believe are the ones who become suicide pilots," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "The ones who don't - the ones responding to promises of money, and support for their families, or the ones simply acting out of hate - they end up with the grunt work of logistics, criminal activity, gun-running. Eventually, they'll burn out. When they do, they'll be valuable to intelligence people - if they're picked...