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...right to expect all the help it can get. It is clear that some Saudis give financial support to terrorist groups and that others join them. Of the 19 hijackers, 15 are thought to have been Saudis. The house of Saud has no reason to pussyfoot with terrorists. Osama bin Laden has made plain that the Saudi regime is his ultimate target. Saudi rulers know all about Islamic militancy. They have been dealing with it--rather effectively and rarely with kid gloves--since Ibn Saud's forces slaughtered the religious zealots of the Ikhwan in the 1920s...
Prince Turki al Faisal knew Osama bin Laden was bad. For the last 10 of Turki's 24 years as Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief, neutralizing bin Laden was one of his primary responsibilities. But the Saudi radical kept slipping through his fingers. Then came Sept. 11 and the awful realization that bin Laden was far worse than he had imagined. "Who would expect it?" Turki asks. "I think we should have been more aware. When you look back on it, you say, 'My God, they have been telling us they are going to do something like that...
Surprisingly, though, Fitzgerald doesn't think the man is linked to Osama bin Laden. In a TIME/CNN poll of 1,037 Americans last week, 63% thought it very likely that bin Laden was responsible for the anthrax attacks, 40% thought it very likely that Saddam Hussein was to blame, and only 16% picked "U.S. citizens not associated with foreign terrorists...
...TONY KARON is a senior editor and columnist here at TIME.com and supervises all our online international coverage. He's been churning out insightful stories since 9/11, but he was already writing extensively about Osama bin Laden long before that. Chat with him on Tuesday...
...Does Osama Bin Laden really have nuclear weapons? Speculation grew more heated last week, at least partly because reports were so wildly uneven. Case in point: bin Laden's declaration about having the Bomb lost something on its way to print in Pakistan but could be found in the translation. In the English-language daily Dawn, readers got the full blast: "We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us, we reserve the right to use them." But that's not what was available in the daily Ausaf, which is published in Urdu...