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...holiday had lasted a decade, the decade of O.J. and Chandra, of an Oval Office adolescent, of three presidential elections without a whiff of interest in foreign policy and the outside world. Osama bin Laden neither reads the New York Times nor tracks presidential debates. But he did see America flee Somalia under fire and refuse for a decade to respond seriously to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the destruction of two American embassies in Africa and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. He saw an American battleship attacked--an act of war--and the U.S. government...
...graves alone were the measure, Osama bin Laden would own this year; we lost more lives on Sept. 11 than in any terrorist attack in U.S. history. And bin Laden did more than kill people. We had just packed up and stored away the century of Hitler and Stalin--both Men of the Year in their time--which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand--like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple--then slowly crumple...
...other stores also use as free billboards. Apocalyptic signage was also erected by Andrew Menschel, 58, the owner of the Dakota Roadhouse, a bar just north of the Trade Center site. Back when the green police tarp shrouded the site, Menschel scrawled advertisements for his bar all over it: OSAMA MISSED US, WHY SHOULD YOU? Some locals have scolded Menschel for trying to "make profit out of death," but business is so slow he will try anything. On a wall in the bar he pasted a map of ground zero that shows the areas assigned to each construction company...
INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS Map: Hunting Osama Map: Nukes Pipeline Interactive: Taliban P.O.W. Revolt...
...draping festive mine tape on a tumbleweed Tannenbaum. I won't pretend to know for sure whether you're lucky to be there or I'm lucky to be home - maybe neither, maybe both. We'd all be luckier, I suppose, if none of this were necessary, if Osama bin Laden had stayed a businessman and nobody ever killed anybody without at least looking them in the eye first...