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...quite a summer camp. According to the FBI, young master Lindh took courses in rocket-propelled grenades and battlefield combat. He even allegedly met Osama bin Laden. But when one of bin Laden's lieutenants asked Lindh if he wanted to leave Afghanistan and conduct operations against the U.S., Lindh declined, preferring the front lines of the Taliban's war with the Northern Alliance. A few weeks later, Lindh heard about the events of Sept. 11 on the radio. "According to [Lindh]," an FBI affidavit says, "it was his and his comrades' understanding at the time that bin Laden...
...carried out the embassy attack? The Arab members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network have long since cleared out of Kabul, but many members of their Afghan cohort are at large, according to intelligence sources in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. The attack might also have been the work of Taliban fighters who still roam the city--in beardless disguise--acting on their own instead of with al-Qaeda. A third possibility is that the bomber was an Afghan who wanted payback for a bomb the U.S. mistakenly dropped on his home...
...economic context was the collapse of tech stocks. We worried about weak leadership from a minority President, and we wondered if the technology collapse would plunge the world into full-blown recession. We were right about the danger of recession, but wrong about the causes and solutions. It was Osama bin Laden, not George W. Bush, who tipped the balance toward economic slowdown...
...likely to see more terror attacks this year, possibly even on the scale of Sept. 11. Enough surviving al-Qaeda operatives - including archterrorist Osama bin Laden himself - remain at large for us to know that there is something being planned, somewhere. And even if it is not an al-Qaeda strike, the potential for violence is high in places like Kashmir, where India and Pakistan hover on the brink of war, and the Philippines, where the U.S. is assisting President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her effort to eliminate the threat from the Abu Sayaaf terrorist organization...
...streets of Kabul. Reports of the death of irony were greatly exaggerated. Once the shock subsided we regained our sense of humor, our awareness of the essential optimism of the human condition. From tears, the U.S. late-night show hosts soon segued into bin Laden jokes: "This guy Osama bin Laden, he has $300 million, 26 kids, five different wives. And what does he hate? The excessive American lifestyle...