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...Iraq the old regime wanted to avoid military retaliation or invasion, so it made sense to shun collaboration with Osama bin Laden's maximal terrorists. But since Saddam and his loyalists have lost their state, the prudence that deterred them from working with the jihadists is gone. Together or alone, the radicals must strike in Iraq, the newest "field of jihad." That phrase, redolent of Scripture, is actually a modern coinage to refer to a theater of operations for the Islamist insurgency. There are many: the U.S. and Europe have emerged as central fields of jihad, along with Egypt, Algeria...
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...Letting up on Osama" reported that the focus on the hunt for Saddam Hussein has derailed the search for Osama bin Laden [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 11]. The increase in terrorist warnings and bombings are all reminders that bin Laden is still a real terrorist threat. It is a travesty that President Bush has diverted our attention for his own personal vendetta against Saddam. He has got the U.S. into an Iraqi quagmire that will take years to resolve. MARY JO VEVERKA Bethesda...
Hambali could prove to be an important asset. CIA interrogators are attempting to pump him for information about future attacks and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden's dwindling inner circle. According to a U.S. intelligence official, an al-Qaeda detainee told the U.S. that Hambali had been trying to recruit pilots for a 9/11-like plot that might have involved suicide hijackings, but it is not known whether the captive was telling the truth and, if he was, when or where the plot would have taken place. And while it is unlikely that Hambali knows the precise coordinates...
...will of Omar al-Faruq, a senior al-Qaeda operative captured in Indonesia in 2002. Spirited away to a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, the Kuwaiti endured day after day of interrogation, including long periods of isolation and sleep deprivation. When al-Faruq finally cracked, he admitted he was Osama bin Laden's most senior operative in southeast Asia, and detailed a network of terror in the region whose scope was beyond anything previously imagined. Ominously, he told his interrogators that despite his arrest, back-up operatives were already in place to "assume responsibilities to carry out operations as planned...