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Last week in New York, four terrorists who colluded with Osama bin Laden to carry out the 1998 bombings were sentenced to life in prison without parole. The judge also ordered them to pay $33 million in restitution to the bomb victims, which is unlikely to occur, as the men are not believed to have sufficient assets. Compensation from America is equally remote; the lawsuit--which, ironically, includes double-dipping plaintiffs already receiving aid--has in effect no defendant, as the U.S. takes no responsibility for the results of terrorism...
...likely to justify military action by the need to preserve access to Middle East crude, a common refrain at the time of the Gulf War 10 years ago. There's a pile of rubble in New York City that provides more eloquent justification for armed force. But since Osama bin Laden has referred to the Saudi oilfields as "a large economic power essential for the soon-to-be-established Islamic state," it's worth assessing how vulnerable the U.S. is to supply interruptions and price hikes of the kind that have happened three times since the early 1970s...
...Department of Vice and Virtue was damaged in the last two weeks?and has relocated to mosques or occupied the houses of ordinary people in congested neighborhoods. "They know the U.S. won't hit a mosque," says Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a truck driver. Locals claim that Arab allies of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban have lodged themselves in buildings left empty by various NGOs and U.N.-affiliated organizations, which were vacated when the U.S. attacks seemed inevitable...
...While U.S cargo jets continued to drop food packages and leaflets assuring ordinary Afghans that the bombs' intended targets were terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda fighters, the chief suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon ordered low-flying AC-130 gunships into action in preparation for the deployment of what President George W. Bush called "friendly troops." By the week's end a U.S. spokesman announced that a small number of special forces were already on the ground in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban defiantly announced that they are ready and eager to avenge...
...UNITED STATES Bombers Sentenced Manhattan's Federal District Court handed down life sentences to four supporters of Osama bin Laden convicted of bombing the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Two of the conspirators, found guilty of murder, had faced the death penalty but a jury voted instead to impose life sentences without parole. Judge Leonard Sand ordered each man to pay $7 million to the victims' families and $26 million to the U.S. government...