Word: osama
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...OSAMA BIN LADEN, on an unauthenticated videotape, denying that self-confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui had a role in the 9/11 plot...
...speech was perfectly sensible. He made a case that the United States has real enemies and that we shouldn't be fighting with each other. And what his critic, Jean Rohe, said was perfectly reasonable too. She made a call for peace, denounced the war, and noted that neither Osama bin Laden nor any weapons of mass destruction had been found...
...wasn't too long ago when Gaddafi, not Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden, was the enemy Washington loved to hate. The U.S. bombed Tripoli 20 years ago last month, in what amounted to an aerial assassination attempt on Gaddafi himself after President Reagan dubbed Gaddafi the "mad dog" of the Middle East. The Tripoli blitz came amid suspected Libyan involvement in a Berlin terrorist attack that killed two American servicemen. Gaddafi's international isolation only grew two years later, after Libya was accused in the Lockerbie disaster. Two decades later, Saddam is gone from power, facing trial and possible...
...Years before the world heard of Osama bin Laden or al-Qaeda, the Tigers were pioneering a new method of guerrilla warfare in their fight against Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese for a tiny separate state in the north of the small Indian Ocean island. The first Tiger killed himself attacking the Sri Lankan army in 1987. Hundreds followed, and when they signed a cease-fire with the Sri Lankan government in February 2002, the Tigers accounted for around a third of all suicide attacks in the world. A Western diplomat based in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo describes...
...Terror Base Released in a general amnesty in 1999, al-Zarqawi returns to Afghanistan and the jihad. He meets Osama bin Laden in 2000 but doesn?t join al-Qaeda. He runs a terrorist-training camp in western Afghanistan...