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...Philippine soldiers who have been scouring the area for the past eight months. In theory, the 650 U.S. G.I.s, including 160 special forces, are being sent to teach the local troops better ways to search out and destroy Abu Sayyaf, a group that officials say has had ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. In practice, armed with sophisticated munitions and authorized to fire only in self-defense, the Americans seem likely to do everything short of direct combat attacks to help rid the Philippines of this scourge...
...absolutely true that Osama bin Laden is a moral pip-squeak. But without this one individual, Sept. 11 would have been just another day and the admirable Mayor Giuliani would not have had the opportunity to remove the tarnish from his image. And without bin Laden, Americans would still be questioning the legitimacy of the Bush presidency. JONATHAN SIMONS Woodland Hills, Calif...
...highly critical of our Person of the Year choice this year. A New Jerseyan charged TIME with "pandering to the majority of Americans who do not understand that being named Person of the Year was never meant to be an honor." "Sure," a man from New Delhi offered, "choosing Osama bin Laden would have provoked howls of outrage from an already indignant public, but your principles would have remained unquestioned." And as always happens, readers came up with their own ideas. A Massachusetts reader had an interesting suggestion: "A much better solution than your awkward attempt at circumventing...
INDICTED. RICHARD REID, 28, who packed explosives in his shoes in an apparent attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight; on nine counts, including attempted murder and the use of a weapon of mass destruction; in Boston. Reid, who is accused of receiving training from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison...
TIME: But Bush's goals appear to be a lot less ambitious than yours. BLAIR: [It's natural that] for America, where this atrocity occurred, these issues of getting Osama bin Laden, shutting down the al-Qaeda network, making sure the homeland is secure, are huge dominating issues. But Americans are providing 80% of the humanitarian aid [in Afghanistan], they hosted the first reconstruction conference, they've been extremely helpful in making sure the Northern Alliance agreed there had to be a broadly based regime...