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...That's how the Taliban got its name, though the term now has an endangered ring. If Osama bin Laden is America's Enemy No. 1, Omar isn't far down the list. America is hoping that Omar's harsh, highly centralized five-year rule has alienated enough Afghans that support will drain away. If the U.S. and its allies want to get Omar, it should be far easier than nabbing bin Laden. For the past six years, Omar has worked from his guarded, palatial Kandahar bungalow. Just a year before that, he was a mere village clergyman living...
...offensive. In a powerful speech to the Labour Party's annual conference in Brighton, Blair promised, "We will put a trap around the regime and I say to the Taliban: Surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice." He also claimed that there was "no doubt" that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group were responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. In support of Blair's certainty the British government published a 21-page document based on U.S. intelligence reports that presented a mass of circumstantial evidence but nothing that would hold up in a court - because...
...Osama bin Laden has understood this. His main weapon has been the spread of fundamentalist propaganda, and from the beginning, he has started to work on people’s minds-on those minds open to, but not yet convinced by his incendiary idealism. “Every Muslim shall support his religion,” he said on a taped message sent to Al-Jazeera television channel last week, after mentioning how his “brothers and sisters” in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq had symbolically retaliated in the recent attack on America. His denunciation...
...that Osama bin Laden sees himself as a unifying figure, rather than a terrorist. One of the reasons our military was able to push this country’s frontier westward was that there was very little organization of the resistance from Native Americans, and what there was was mostly too late. Some tribes made treaties; other tribes tried raids, or open battles, until they were wiped out, but any resistance offered was futile—the expansion of our border was never really checked or slowed until it reached the Pacific Ocean. Though most of bin Laden?...
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