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...attack on Iraq would only validate Osama bin Laden's dangerous extremism and further destabilize the Middle East. HAROON MOGHUL Somers, Conn...
Your article on how President Bush is making his case for an attack on Iraq [Special Report, Sept. 16] highlighted a central danger: "If the last Gulf War helped inspire evil in [Osama] bin Laden, will a new one create many more like him?" Saddam Hussein is no more dangerous now than he was before Sept. 11, 2001. Even a successful effort to change the regime in Iraq would not reduce the number of radical extremists who want to see a weakened America. Though the world surely would be a better place without a madman like Saddam...
...dossier of infractions by Saddam Hussein--a dossier that made no mention of the Iraqi leader's links to al-Qaeda--both National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were cranking up new accusations of links between Saddam and the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. That night, as the Daschle explosion ruled the evening news, Rice appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and said "high-ranking detainees" had told the U.S. that Iraq "provided some training to al-Qaeda in chemical-weapons development." Then she added, "We don't want to push this...
...stronghold lies in the tribal band along the Afghan border. Its Baluch and Pashtun supporters are ethnically and ideologically tied to the former Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, thus their anti-Americanism. The region is where Pakistani and U.S. intelligence officers believe many al-Qaeda fighters, possibly even Osama bin Laden, may be holed up. Guns are in plentiful supply. Basha Kamal from Khana-Khel village, in the hills behind the turquoise Indus River, slaps his hip and says: "Of course I carry an automatic pistol. That doesn't mean I'm a terrorist." He adds, "But I refuse...
...first confrontation with Islamic terror," says one French justice official. "So this case is important historically, but it also educated us fast." What investigators learned is that the success of the G.I.A. in exporting to France its jihad against the Algerian regime made the organization a logical partner for Osama bin Laden. Since 1995 al-Qaeda cells seem to have imitated the G.I.A.'s tactics: using car theft, credit-card fraud and document forgery to fund terror plots; recruiting and indoctrinating alienated youths and petty crooks from Arab communities, then using their larceny to fund jihad. Police arresting cell members...