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...with Richard Zoglin and under the guiding hand of Steve Koepp, settled on the final 100. Then came the task of matching writer with subject. We turned first to our own staff and contributors. Cairo bureau chief Scott MacLeod, for example, wrote about the men behind the al-Jazeera network, Andrew Sullivan handled George W. Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge critiqued Vladimir Putin, Pico Iyer made the case for the Dalai Lama, and Belinda Luscombe interviewed Nicole Kidman. Many of the profiles, however, were written by people who are not journalists but who have special...
...Zarqawi also has a wider influence. Western intelligence officials say terrorists tied to recent attacks in Casablanca, Istanbul and Madrid all had contacts with him. With much of al-Qaeda's leadership destroyed, al-Zarqawi is an archetype of the new terrorism threat: a global operator plugged into a network of like-minded Islamists from London to Lahore. In his letter, al-Zarqawi declared that if his efforts to sow chaos in Iraq fail, "we can pack up and leave and look for another land." Few tasks in the war on terrorism are more urgent than to find him before...
...side against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden became America's No. 1 nemesis a decade later. The malcontented son of a wealthy Saudi construction magnate, bin Laden found meaning in the Afghan war. When it was over, he organized its Arab veterans into a global network of terrorists seeking to overthrow governments to create fundamentalist theocracies. He named the movement the foundation, as in the base of a building--in Arabic, al-Qaeda. Bin Laden provided the seed money, the organizational ability and the charismatic personality necessary to catalyze the global movement. He galvanized disparate organizations...
...Laden personally approved the details of major terrorist attacks such as those on the East African embassies, the U.S.S. Cole and on New York City and Washington in September 2001. After the U.S. placed forces in Afghanistan in 2001, bin Laden appeared to be cut off from his global network. Al-Qaeda then morphed from a highly hierarchical organization into a multi-headed hydra, with independently operating cells raining terror upon Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Russia, Indonesia and Spain...
Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 53, the Emir of Qatar, has shouldered the political burden and financial cost of sponsoring al-Jazeera. With an estimated 35 million viewers, the network is being imitated across the region. Al-Jazeera has angered Arab governments by giving airtime to rebel movements and freedom advocates and tackling taboo topics like polygamy and apostasy. And Arab opinion has been immeasurably influenced by al-Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But nothing has made al-Jazeera so famous as the journalistic hospitality it has extended...