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...leaned forward in his blue chair and began the first meeting of his war council. Around the oblong table sat Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General John Ashcroft and chief of staff Andrew Card. "Make no mistake," Bush said, stabbing his finger into the table. "Understand my resolve, and all of your people need to understand this...
...French-speaking North African men detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself instantly and fatally wounding the man they had journeyed across the globe to meet: Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the ragtag Northern Alliance that is fighting a civil war against the ruling Taliban militia. Immediately, the finger of suspicion pointed to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist sheltered by the Taliban. But two days later the explosion in the country's Amu Darya valley was drowned out by the terror attacks on New York and Washington. Now, with bin Laden emerging as the most likely mastermind of those atrocities...
Right now the finger seems to point to Osama bin Laden harbored in Afghanistan by the Taliban government. Bin Laden has long been a worthy target for arrest, capture and trial, for planning and carrying out terrorist attacks. Afghanistan has long been a Cold War battleground upon which America and the Soviet Union maneuvered...
...They have expertise in an area that we did not,” said John Wentzell, the assistant athletic director. Before they were hired to help with the gym, “we didn’t have eyes and ears in there, but they really had their finger on the pulse, and have been able to push for what needs to be done. Just their professional presence is going to start paying great dividends...
That was the battle in Seattle," says Teamsters president James P. Hoffa, poking his finger proudly at a picture of himself with a young woman dressed up as a sea turtle. The two are smiling over a banner that reads TEAMSTERS AND TURTLES TOGETHER AT LAST. The photo on his office wall is a testimonial to Hoffa's willingness to join with anyone to protect his 1.4 million members. He will make that point again this week when he works with the turtle's archenemies to push for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which he hopes will...