Word: ladenã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...enough to kill innocent Americans. Again, although there are certain responsible steps we should take, there’s good reason to doubt whether even a kinder, gentler America will have its virtue recognized. Even if we changed our Israel policy or dropped our sanctions on Iraq at bin Laden??s request, we would still be the most prominent and most successful devotee of the Western, secular spirit against which the radicals of the Muslim world have defined themselves...
Given that we have criticized the Bush administration for discouraging media organizations from broadcasting Osama bin Laden??s speeches, we would expect the staff to advocate the open disclosure of information about national security. We can’t help but feel that if Ashcroft had chosen not to inform the public and this week’s terrorist threat had later emerged through independent reports, the Bush administration would have been subject to vociferous criticism on this page and elsewhere. By disseminating credible information about actual threats—even if that information is regrettably lacking...
...alternate means. In terms of preventing further terrorism, a war with Afghanistan does not appear to be particularly effective. While it appears that it took years of planning from a large, well-funded terrorist cell to undertake the Sept. 11 attacks, terrorist acts from members of bin Laden??s network, which is believed to include thousands of members spread throughout dozens of countries, are simply not that difficult to undertake. It is as easy as a well-placed sniper, a car filled with homemade explosives or an envelope of anthrax. Even U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admits...
They certainly do not draw our attention to an unexamined issue—it was all too clear that bin Laden??s spectre was all around us on Friday when the audience collectively flinched as several planes (didn’t they seem particularly noisy?) flew low overhead during the speech. Nor have they complicated our understanding of Sept. 11—Bush’s subtle diction need only remind us of the sort of rhetoric we hear today...
...deal does not mean that CNN and al-Jazeera will necessarily broadcast identical stories or images. And it should not suggest that al-Jazeera will only report U.S.-friendly information. Last week, Washington was infuriated when Al-Jazeera aired Osama bin Laden??s most recent speech. In this diatribe, bin Laden expresses satisfaction with the Sept. 11 attacks and predicts further outbreaks of violence. Secretary of State Colin Powell lamented that al-Jazeera was giving too much airtime to “vitriolic irresponsible kinds of statements.” But Al-Jazeera maintained that it was simply...