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...women and in 1990, in a move that fueled a backlash among fundamentalists, agreed to be host to 500,000 U.S. troops during the first Gulf War. But his tolerance for the extreme brand of Islam known as Wahhabism helped spawn the Islamic holy war led by Saudi native Osama bin Laden against both the West and the Saudi royal family...
Your story about the federal crackdown on physicians who prescribe narcotics [July 25] asked why the DEA is hounding doctors. Answer: Because the DEA can't catch the real drug dealers. So the agency took a cue straight from the White House: if you can't capture Osama bin Laden, go after Saddam Hussein. As bad as it sounds, I would like DEA personnel to experience intense pain. If, like the rest of us, they had to suffer the consequences of the DEA's incompetent attack on painkiller abuse, maybe that would put an end to this nonsense...
...doesn't have the SECRET stamp on it, it really isn't treated very seriously," says Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit. The idea of an open-source unit didn't gain traction until a White House commission recommended creating one last spring. Utilizing it will require "cultural and attitudinal changes," says the senior DNI official. Sure, watching TV and listening to the radio may not sound terribly sexy, but, says Scheuer, "there's no better way to find out what Osama bin Laden's going to do than to read what he says...
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, in a video aired last week on al-Jazeera, threatening more American casualties if the U.S. does not withdraw from Iraq...
...part to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, whose vote with two of his colleagues on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court's order, the tribunals are back on, with the trials of several alleged terrorists like Australian David Hicks and an alleged driver for Osama bin Laden expected to gear up in the fall. That is, of course, unless there's an appeal to the Supreme Court; Roberts, if he's on the court by then, would have to recuse himself from the case...