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...militia with both funds and firepower. Among a Taliban foreign legion of some 10,000 is a powerful and still growing contingent of 2,500 to 3,000 Arabs personally loyal to bin Laden. If the two attacks were indeed linked it seems more likely they came as a furious double-barreled blast at bin Laden's principal enemies: the man stubbornly resisting his Taliban protectors, and the superpower he sees as an intolerable affront to his twisted?and by no means typically Islamic?fundamentalist vision...
...only mustering the forces to go after Bin Laden himself, but also to sustain a consistent long-term effort to root out his cadres and their allies across the globe. And the need to establish the widest possible consensus behind a course of action may explain the furious diplomatic shuttling between U.S. leaders and their European, Russian, Pakistani, Arab and Asian counterparts underway this week...
...ANGRY NEIGHBORS Beijing and Seoul are furious with the nationalistic tone of Koizumi's administration, his visit to the Shinto shrine that honors Japan's war dead and his tacit approval of a revisionist textbook that waters down wartime aggression Koizumi's plan: Use personal charm in diplomatic tete-a-tetes with Asian counterparts Outlook: POOR. Korea's Kim Dae Jung and China's Jiang Zemin have snubbed his overtures. They want concessions before they'll talk. Giving in would make Koizumi look bad at home...
...thrown at his parents' car as they drove to their home in the Shilo settlement. The baby died soon after, and Sharon was deeply affected by the tragedy. Still, though Sharon may sympathize with the settlers' plight, they chafe at what they consider his restraint. So do Likud activists, furious that their leader isn't taking a harder line. Sharon is doing his best to soothe his party rank and file, stopping in at their weddings and dinners. The army too wants the Prime Minister to do more; the generals would like Sharon officially to declare Arafat and his Palestinian...
...over North Korea is part of Washington lore. He said the Bush Administration would "pick up where the Clinton Administration left off" in negotiating a missile-proliferation deal with the North. The White House, annoyed that South Korea had just sided with Russia against Bush's missile shield and furious that Powell had uttered the word Clinton, said, No way. The next day Powell had to step out and retract his position. He took the setback stoically, at least in public. When the dust settled, he told reporters, "I got a little far forward on my skis." But friends...