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...Washington, in the Muslim world it does not. Last week Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, said an American war would "open the gates of hell" in the Middle East. Why the hyperbole? First, because Arab governments wonder if the U.S. will stay the course if casualties mount or stick around to help govern Iraq after a war. Second, because Iraq--cobbled together from three provinces of the Ottoman Empire after World War I--is a fragile state that could easily break up amid yet more violence. But above all, because Arab governments are convinced that America...
...oppose a pre-emptive U.S. war are pushing a compromise plan: a new system of "coercive" inspections, under which the U.N. Security Council would call for weapons monitors to return to Iraq backed by a U.S.-led military force that could shoot its way into suspicious facilities or mount an all-out invasion if Iraqi recalcitrance persisted. "It's comply or else," says retired Air Force General Charles Boyd, an advocate of coercive inspections. "We say to Saddam, 'You can submit to unfettered inspections, or you can have an invasion of your country...
...officer filed a report of a stolen motor vehicle on 2 Mount Auburn...
...unsettling signs, however, that al-Qaeda has been recruiting in the Windsor and Detroit areas. In late July, Canadian authorities handed over to the fbi a 20-year-old Canadian citizen of Kuwaiti heritage. Investigators said Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah admitted traveling to Singapore last October to help mount an aborted plot to blow up the U.S., British, Israeli and Australian embassies there. And last week a federal grand jury in Detroit indicted four local Arab men with conspiring to support radical Islamic terror attacks against the U.S., Turkey and Jordan...
...resulted in failure. The American army--and its allies--did not become mired in Afghanistan, and it was the Taliban that was routed. Al-Qaeda's infrastructure was significantly damaged, even if precious little is known about the fate of bin Laden and his lieutenants or their ability to mount new operations around the globe. The Qaeda threat remains, but beyond the fascination with bin Laden among some Muslim youth who view him as a defiant hero, most of the Muslim world has followed the lead of imams who refused to lend him any support and prevented his extremist fire...