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...American military and intelligence personnel who visit his hospital bed that "he isn't a big fan of ours," a U.S. official says sardonically. So last week, when the Palestinian fanatic, on the mend at a secret U.S. facility overseas, declared that among the next targets of Osama Bin Laden's terror cells would be U.S. banks along the Eastern seaboard, the Americans were inclined to wonder if he was merely taunting them. "He's a smart guy," says one US official familiar with Zubaydah's remarks. "If he could screw with our heads, he probably would...
...into the role of peacemaker anytime soon, so why bother trying to convert either? And so Bush spent the first two-thirds of 2001 worrying less about foreign policy than domestic matters. When he did look overseas, first it was Russia and China that tested him. Then it was Osama bin Laden...
That's the kind of reasoning that distinguishes the Palestinian brand of suicide bombing from al-Qaeda's. Osama bin Laden is not seeking the international community's support for his political aims and wants to take the fight directly to America. Palestinians, on the other hand, rely on money raised in the U.S., and carnage in America could turn off donors. Palestinians understand the danger of angering the U.S., the inevitable arbiter of peace negotiations. "They realize their only hope of getting Israel to pull back is the U.S.," says the FBI agent. "So to target us now would...
Remember how Sept. 11 was supposed to mark the end of the culture wars? Americans were going to put aside their differences, acknowledge their common humanity and bond with one another in the shared pleasure of hunting down Osama bin Laden and blowing him to bits. For a month or two you could almost believe it. But with the war in Afghanistan winding down, it appears that the time has come for the American left and right to start gunning for each other again, at least in bookstores...
DIED. ABDULLAH BIN LADEN, 75, patriarch of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families and estranged uncle of Osama bin Laden; of undisclosed causes; in Riyadh. After the Sept. 11 attacks, he condemned the "tragic incident...which contradicts the teachings of our religion, Islam." In 1994, the year Osama was stripped of his citizenship, the family disavowed links with...