Word: ladens
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...like a veteran prizefighter. When he met TIME correspondents in his Islamabad salon recently, Musharraf strode across an ornate Persian carpet clutching a memo with the names of 30 al-Qaeda suspects whom Pakistan has helped to nab over the past two months. This, said Musharraf, was Osama bin Laden's "second string" of terrorists: "We know who is whom and who is where. We've broken their backs." He claimed that a lode of al-Qaeda computer disks captured in July showed that the group's leaders have contingency plans to shift operations away from the hinterlands of Pakistan...
...Musharraf's deadly bout with al-Qaeda, the latest round has decisively been his. But a victory bell isn't expected soon. Bin Laden is still at large. "There is a perception that we have Osama hidden somewhere," the President said, "and we'll bring him out close to the American elections. We can't. We don't have any idea where Osama is." Al-Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, announced on a video released last week that holy warriors, or mujahedin, were winning the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pakistan has arrested more than 550 al-Qaeda...
...pesantren-cum-business headquarters while visitors sip on the celebrity preacher's own brand of soft drink? Will it be the dogma of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia - set up by accused terrorist leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to lobby for Islamic sharia law - whose members sell Osama bin Laden T shirts outside a shabby office in Yogyakarta? Or will it be the intellectual questing of the Liberal Islam Network, whose leader Ulil Abshar-Abdalla has sparked wide debate and death threats with his calls for reforms to Islam...
...balance. Yes, there are serious civil rights issues in the U.S. today, but Spiegelman personally has little cause to fear a dirty-bomb attack from Tom Ridge. And if his grasp of the problem is shaky, his groping toward a solution is worse. When Spiegelman compares Osama bin Laden to Ignatz, the cheeky brick-throwing mouse from George Herriman's Krazy Kat, the mind recoils in dismay. "Since every Eden has its snake," Spiegelman writes of Ignatz/bin Laden, "one must somehow learn to live in harmony with that snake!" Bricks are not bombs, and terrorists do not tolerate harmony, still...
...balance. Yes, there are serious civil rights issues in the U.S. today, but Spiegelman personally has little cause to fear a dirty-bomb attack from Tom Ridge. And if his grasp of the problem is shaky, his groping toward a solution is worse. When Spiegelman compares Osama bin Laden to Ignatz, the cheeky brick-throwing mouse from George Herriman's Krazy Kat, the mind recoils in dismay. "Since every Eden has its snake," Spiegelman writes of Ignatz/bin Laden, "one must somehow learn to live in harmony with that snake!" Bricks are not bombs, and terrorists do not tolerate harmony, still...