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...Panama. "We're good at hitting big, immovable things," says an Air Force general. "We don't do so well when they move around and they're small." Both are true of bin Laden. "He is the hardest man ever to get to," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. To avoid being spotted by satellites, bin Laden and his associates use human couriers to relay messages, who sometimes travel on foot rather than in cars. He has been extra careful since Chechen secessionist leader Dzhokar Dudayev was blown up by a Russian rocket while...
...Americans, despite concerns over the reaction on the street. Pakistani officials, sources say, realized that the U.S. action against bin Laden was likely to be "massive and indiscriminate" and saw little reason that their own nation should want to be collateral damage. Musharraf, said Rifaat Hussain, a defense expert at an Islamabad university, "can either swim with the international current or sink with the Taliban." The decision to back the U.S., sources say, was made easier by a growing Pakistani frustration with the Taliban. Islamabad supported the regime hoping that it would bring peace and stability to the region...
...take too much comfort from these new measures. They won't necessarily fix what an industry expert calls the "dirty little secret of aviation." At its root is an inherent conflict of interest: profit-driven airlines are largely responsible for screening passengers. The more money and time they spend in that process, the less efficient and profitable they become. It's not that they strive to be lax, but security isn't their business. Last Thursday a Northwest Airlines flight crew in Phoenix, Ariz., deliberately got through security carrying a pocketknife and corkscrew, just to show how weak the system...
...dictatorships?unshakable self-confidence, an unwilling-ness to compromise, a fiery independent streak?have turned into liabilities. Even supporters say his authoritarian style and inability to listen have contributed to a political crisis that culminated in last week's train wreck. Sohn Ho Cheol, a former student activist and expert on Korean politics at Sogang University, says he was once jailed for helping Kim. Today he is disillusioned with what he calls an imperial presidency: "He has disappointed so many people. The Nobel Prize made him more alienated from the people, more arrogant...
...hubris may have been necessary when he was leading a band of trusted followers trying to outwit a military regime that wanted him dead. But it isn't helping him to line up support for his policies, says Lim Sung Ho, an expert on legislative politics at Seoul's Kyung Hee University. "Kim has a knack for fighting," says Lim. "But fighting is different from leading." The leadership deficit has been most apparent in dealing with North Korea. With the South Korean economy cratering, the flow of money and aid to a seemingly ungrateful North has irritated many citizens...