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...what happened to the victory parades? The simple answer is that while the fighting is finished, the U.S. hasn't won yet. Al-Qaeda's network, while badly degraded, hasn't folded. The biggest prize, Osama bin Laden, has remained maddeningly out of reach since the hunt for him began one year ago; U.S. commanders believe he is probably alive and holed up in Pakistan, perhaps in the northwest city of Peshawar. Afghan officials told Time that in November the U.S. allowed Pakistan to airlift hundreds of fighters, including some senior Taliban officials, out of the contested northern city...
...using explosives contained in his hiking shoes; at a hearing in Boston. He faces 60 years to life in prison. "Basically, I got on the plane with the bomb," he told the court, smirking and chuckling at times. "I am a member of al-Qaeda and I pledged to Osama bin Laden. I am an enemy of your country...
...Qaeda on the rebound? Evidence is starting to mount that it is. U.S. officials believe that audiotaped statements purported to be from Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, broadcast recently on al-Jazeera, are authentic. Although the bin Laden tape is not thought to be new, U.S. counterterrorism officials told Time that al-Zawahiri's statement-which warned of imminent attacks on the U.S. and its allies-was probably recorded in the past two months. "This is a way of telling people that al-Zawahiri isn't dead," says a White House aide. The U.S. believes...
...Authorities believe the killers were - at the very least - Islamic extremists, and may well have had direct links with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. That would be worrying enough for the U.S. and its allies, given that it was the first such anti-American terrorist attack ever staged in Kuwait, a country that has been steadfastly pro-American since U.S. forces led the liberation of Kuwait from Iraq's occupation in 1991. But the Falaika incident, preceded by what now appears to have been a suicide attack last weekend on an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen...
...French oil tanker Limburg exploded in waters off Yemen. Although investigators are still probing the cause of the blast, European officials believe it was a terrorist attack by an explosive-laden skiff - similar to the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, also off Yemen, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden and an area where his movement remains popular. The tanker blast came a day after the Qatari al-Jazeera cable network broadcast what it claimed was an audio tape from bin Laden warning of attacks on Western economic interests...