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...control that now resides mostly in national capitals? How to untangle the often overlapping competences of local, regional, national and Continental governments? At a scheduled pace of one session a month under the stern leadership of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Convention has a Herculean task to complete within a year's time...
...reordering of the power balance among the various warlords (and a redistribution among them of most of the Taliban's troops). In order to make Afghanistan a functioning state, the feuding warlord armies will have to be either disarmed, or else incorporated into a disciplined national army - a Herculean challenge that may require tens of thousands of peacekeepers, or more correctly, peace enforcers...
...money. But Ross has his work cut out for him, because deep-seated anti-American feeling on the Arab streets nurtured by perceptions of U.S. culpability in the plight of the Iraqis and Palestinians has seeded the propaganda playing field in bin Laden's favor. It will take a Herculean spin effort to convince al-Jazeera viewers that Osama bin Laden is the reason for the suffering of the civilian casualties whose images dominate Arab media coverage of the war in Afghanistan. It appears that even those hostile to bin Laden may be growing increasingly wary of the U.S. bombing...
...that the prudent assumption is that bin Laden is nuclear capable in some fashion." Other experts are less certain that any terrorist group could pull off a nuke. A 1999 Rand study on terrorism noted somewhat reassuringly that "building a nuclear device capable of producing mass destruction presents Herculean challenges for terrorists and indeed even for states with well-funded and sophisticated programs...
...alleged terrorists captured since Sept. 11. President Bush said last week that nearly 150 suspected terrorists and supporters had been arrested in 25 countries. As of Sept. 30, the U.S. Department of Justice had made 383 searches under warrants and issued 4,407 subpoenas. Court cases arising from these Herculean efforts will drag on for years...