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...verifiable facts are chilling enough--and, in places, eerily prescient. Take the 1995 closed-door briefing for President Clinton and 400 officials from the U.S., Canada, Britain and Japan by Bill Patrick, former chief of the Army's bioweapons-development program. Patrick described how terrorists--armed with blenders, cheesecloth, garden sprayers and starter bugs mail-ordered from a U.S. germ bank--could spray enough deadly bacteria in the air intakes of the World Trade Center to infect 25,000 people. If that didn't scare anybody then, it will...
Every morning, just after dawn, the first of a group of dignified, luxuriantly bearded Afghans go into a flower-filled garden bounded by a spring-fed stream and open their Korans. Later they pray and eat breakfast, nodding solemnly to the bedraggled foreigners who wander outside. This serene setting is in fact part of the defense ministry of the United Front. Only two things give any hint of the place's real purpose: the crackle of radios and the comings and goings of officers--Bismullah Khan, the overall commander for the area, said to be in intense negotiations with Taliban...
...ministry provides quarters for a dozen or so foreign journalists. Despite the lovely garden and songbirds--Afghans are passionate about both--conditions are austere. We sleep seven to a room, on the floor, and limited bathing facilities mean that a faint Camembert-like odor hovers about us. It is unusual for a defense ministry to take paying guests. But this is an unusual war. At night each side lobs a few shells, as if to remind the enemy it still exists. Frontline commanders ply visitors with tea and grapes...
...sangar, resemble little more than piles of rocks. In the peaceful-seeming villages of the plains, military bases blend in with the surrounding houses. Look through the narrow entrances of the high-walled compounds, many built to resemble fortresses, and you never know what you will find--a flower garden or a mortar emplacement. This is a land built for defense--against bandits, lawlessness and foreign invaders. We outsiders are always welcome, but on their terms. It would be best for the U.S. to remember this in the weeks ahead...
After all, he is a former basketball player for the Brooklyn Yeshiva Academy high school team, who once played in Madison Square Garden, and Dershowitz loves...