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President Bush, delighted to hear of Osama bin Laden??s offer of a truce with Europe, will be disappointed when his advisers explain that America is not, in fact, part of Europe. He will also be crushed when he learns that Europe is where France...
...failing to accurately assess Osama bin Laden??s motives in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration committed the U.S. to a foreign policy in the Middle East that plays into bin Laden??s nefarious interests. Bin Laden was not simply a religious fanatic dedicated to the destruction of pluralistic and democratic Western society, even though it may have been politically expedient and emotionally cathartic to characterize him that way. Instead, bin Laden endeavored to stir up turmoil in the Middle East that would lead to the establishment of additional Islamic theocracies...
...arrests of six members of an alleged al Qaeda cell in Lackawanna, NY in Sept. 2002 indicates that bin Laden??s organization maintained clandestine operatives in the country after the Sept. 11 attacks. Furthermore, the Associated Press reported that the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—an important al Qaeda operational planner captured in March—produced evidence that bin Laden himself was responsible for managing the tactical scale of the attacks. Taken together, this information suggests that al Qaeda had the operational sophistication, the opportunity and the in-place assets to plan and execute broader...
...Kandahar meeting seems quite plausible, however, given other evidence that’s come to light. For one thing, bin Laden??s “official biographer,” Hamid Mir of al Jazeera, has made indirect reference to it. Harvard lecturer and terrorism specialist Jessica Stern, a former Clinton official, writes in Foreign Affairs that Mir claims to have “‘personal knowledge’ that [Hijazi] tried to contact bin Laden in Afghanistan as early...
News that Harvard receives funds from the bin Laden family makes national news. Sheik Bakr Mohammed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden??s brother, made two gifts totaling $2 million to the University to fund fellowships for the study of Islamic culture. Harvard officials, responding to attacks, stress that the University will cease using funds if any explicit link to Osama bin Laden??s terrorist organization are found...