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...World Cup, but European elites dismissed American enthusiasm as a sign of America’s naïveté and lack of sophistication. Real soccer aficionados, as some European commentators joked, would have never filled a huge stadium on a Wednesday afternoon for a game between Morocco and Saudi Arabia...
Sophomore kicker Jim Morocco started the afternoon on the wrong foot, missing a 29-yard field goal early in the first quarter to leave the score knotted at zero...
...went downhill from there. Morocco was pulled after having his second extra point effort of the afternoon stuffed by the Crusaders’ defensive line, barely floating the ball into the end zone and never threatening the goal posts...
...There have been a number of al-Qaeda inspired terror strikes since September 11 2001 - in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and possibly even Iraq. Further plots have been disrupted in Europe, the Arab world and possibly the U.S. But the movement's fortunes, over the past two years, cannot be judged by the number of attacks it has launched, any more than the success of President Bush's "war on terror" can be measured by the number of al-Qaeda operatives captured or killed...
...Qaeda's game plan, the attacks of 9/11 were not an end in themselves, but a means to pursue their goal of driving the U.S. out of the Muslim world, overthrowing the pro-U.S. regimes in states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia (and eventually everywhere from Morocco to Indonesia), and to eliminate the Jewish state in their midst. Al-Qaeda propaganda regularly proclaims that the U.S. will flee from a head-on fight in Muslim lands, citing the examples of the withdrawals from Beirut in 1985 and Mogadishu in '94. Bin Laden is unlikely to have imagined that...