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...contain demonstrations, he put three of the most virulent extremist leaders under house arrest. His most significant actions took place inside the army's barracks. He renewed his term as military chief "indefinitely." And he shook out top generals partial to the Taliban or its brand of fierce Islam who might try to undermine his new policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three key generals who had engineered the October 1999 coup that brought him to power. He replaced the vice chief...
...bombing campaign began, Americans were dumbstruck to see the placid face of the enemy, Osama bin Laden, in their living rooms. Outside a secret cave hideout, a Kalashnikov rifle beside him, he directly challenged the official U.S. line by casting the fight, in flowery classical Arabic, as one between Islam and the West. "America," he said, "will never taste security and safety unless we feel security and safety in our land...
...problem is not so much the U.S. message--that our war is not with Islam, that many countries lost citizens in the attacks, and so on--as the fact that it is not reaching Arabs. Too few U.S. representatives in the Middle East speak Arabic. Too few U.S. officials show up on the dominant Arab TV-news network. The U.S. has invested too little in cultural exchange. The overall failing is perhaps simply that the government has no coordinated communications--oh, let's say it, propaganda--strategy. Asks Representative Henry Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee...
...least one sense, Osama bin Laden was not successful [THE WAR, Oct. 1]. One of the stated goals of his terrorist group al-Qaeda is to drive American "infidels" from Islam's sacred soil. But the attacks against innocent civilians on Sept. 11 only resulted in a large U.S. military presence in the Middle East and even greater U.S. resolve. PAUL A. FAWCETT Redmond, Wash...
...company, AOL Time Warner ($932 million), is known as one of the most ardent Arab supporters of the U.S. "It is my personal duty," he said before leaving Saudi Arabia for a trip to New York City, "to show my alliance and show the real face of the Arab, Islam and Saudi Arabia." And so, during a tour of ground zero, he presented New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with a check for $10 million to aid the victims of the World Trade Center attacks...