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Highlights from six years of TIME's coverage of al-Qaeda from the 1998 embassy bombings to the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan...
...eagerly await the opportunity to count how many words George W. Bush will offer on his vaunted political career. Gabrielle S. Nurre Edgewood, New Mexico, U.S. Bush has been campaigning with the slogan "Results Matter." I want to know which results the President is talking about. Osama bin Laden is still at large, terrorism alerts continue on a regular basis (indicating we are no safer than we were before 9/11), our military is stretched thin, our intelligence services remain unreformed, gas prices have reached record highs, and our economy is limping. I can't see any positive results that have...
...Sayyaf was founded in the 1980s, with the backing of men who were at the heart of al-Qaeda. No less a figure than Osama bin Laden's own brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, personally arranged initial funding for the group through one of the Islamic charities he operated in the Philippines at the time. But after the death of Abu Sayyaf's founder Abdurajak Janjalani in a firefight with police in August 1998, its religious and political goals were dropped in favor of kidnapping for ransom. The group was paid millions of dollars by the governments of Malaysia...
...unspoken reality, though, is that all the current scrambling may still not be enough to keep the U.S. safe. While intelligence experts believe the busts in Pakistan have helped provide new insights into bin Laden's network and the deadly activities it evidently had planned, the scope of the terrorist threat has only widened as officials learn more. Which plots might still be going forward and which have been foiled is frustratingly unclear. For all the progress against a deadly and elusive target--and progress it was--that is the nature of the war against al-Qaeda. Says Michael Mason...
...evidence uncovered by the 9/11 commission that there were contacts between al-Qaeda and Iran between October 2000 and February 2001 [July 26]. That is further confirmation that the U.S. attacked the wrong country. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Your story noted that Osama bin Laden declined an offer of collaboration with Iran to avoid alienating his supporters in Saudi Arabia. So, what better country to attack than Saudi Arabia? The warfare should have been not military but economic, in the form of subsidizing a Manhattan Project to end our dependence on oil. We can start...