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Casting a cold eye on Iraq, which experts believe has stockpiled as much anthrax as any other nation on Earth--except possibly Russia--is not merely an automatic response to threatening times. Intelligence reports indicate that an Iraqi agent has met with an associate of Osama bin Laden. Also, Mohamed Atta, the Sept. 11 hijacker, reportedly had a June 2000 encounter with an Iraqi operative in Prague. There is as yet no evidence linking Iraq to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, but with four verified exposures to anthrax in the U.S. and a highly unstable situation...
...Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing with police as they chanted, "Osama, nuclear power of the Muslim world!" As Muslim sympathizers of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban whipped up fury in the streets, Musharraf's show of force kept the protests under relative control. This time...
AFGHANISTAN The Taliban Pay the Price Almost a month after the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S.-led forces launched military strikes on targets in Afghanistan. The raids were aimed at ending the operations of chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaeda network and the Taliban regime sheltering them. The bombing by U.S. aircraft and British and American cruise missiles marked the first stage of what President Bush called a "sustained, comprehensive and relentless" campaign against terrorism. Within days, U.S. military officials said their forces had secured air supremacy over Afghanistan, knocking...
...those orders, and the ideas that animate them, come from men like Osama bin Laden, spoiled son of a Saudi tycoon—or from hijacker Mohamed Atta, born to a middle-class Egyptian family and radicalized by ideas imbibed at German universities—or from the host of Muslim clerics, of imams and mullahs, across the Middle East and Asia, who have fallen over themselves to provide religious justifications for an anti-American jihad. This is not a new phenomenon: revolutionary movements have always found their leaders among discontented middle and upper class types. Think of Danton...
That spirit endures to this day. Just ask Osama bin Laden...