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Then comes the hardest part of all: bringing the terrorists to justice. Although the U.S. claims the legal right to try anyone for the murder of an American citizen abroad, prosecutors first have to get their hands on the suspect, and that has proved a major stumbling block even in cases where miscreants are firmly identified. Libya has refused to extradite the accused bombers of Pan Am 103; Saudi Arabia insists on investigating, trying and punishing suspects, like the four men beheaded for blowing up a U.S. training center in Riyadh in 1995, without ever letting the FBI interrogate them...
...record of success is not very good. Out of 24 major attacks on American targets since Iranian fundamentalists seized the Tehran embassy in 1979, only eight ever ended in arrest and trial, and three of those eight assaults took place in the U.S. Only once, when Libya was blamed for the 1986 bombing of a German discotheque, did the U.S. retaliate militarily. But persistence has paid off: the Palestinian who set a bomb on a Pan Am jet that killed one person in 1982 was finally turned over to American courts in June. The U.S. has also developed extensive...
Highest on the U.S. list at the moment is Saudi renegade millionaire Osama bin Laden. Over the past year or so, he has issued a number of decrees, calling on all Muslim groups to attack U.S. facilities. Bin Laden is thought to be a major financier of terror groups and is the prime suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers military barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. While his declared goal is the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, bin Laden's bitterness toward the U.S. is just as strong. "All Muslims," he said last...
American shoppers, whose spending represents two-thirds of the U.S. economy, hold the key to what happens next. And data released last week were encouraging on that score. Most major retailers said sales surged in July, for the seventh straight gain this year. "Our customers are happy to pay $3,000 for a Chanel suit or $800 for a Prada bag," says Nancy Husted, a spokeswoman for Denver's Neiman Marcus store. In Washington the Federal Reserve found vigorous spending across the country on items from housing to air travel. Barbara Szosz, a North Carolina travel agent, reports that...
Glenn: Any major legislation has to have bipartisan support. The more we work together, the better it is. We have different views, but when you get down to having so many political things in committee that are just irritants and are just partisan, that...