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...Sayyaf is a Muslim guerrilla group based in the Philippines, where it wants a separate Islamic homeland. The group's 300 members now hold 18 hostages, including an American couple. Its frequent kidnappings have netted millions in ransom. Philippine officials said recently that Osama bin Laden supplies the group with arms...
...Southeast Asia--is not so easy to invoke this time, when any U.S. military action will follow a terrorist attack carried out on American soil. And the argument that the mass murder of Sept. 11 was brought on by injustices of American foreign policy is hard to credit when Osama bin Laden is a man whose ideal of social organization is not exactly Denmark...
Social scientists say three types of rumors commonly emerge following a catastrophe: wish-fulfillment rumors, bogey rumors and wedge-driving rumors. The old man's debris ride to safety is a classic wish-fulfillment rumor, as is the story that Osama bin Laden is dying of liver cancer. Bogey rumors (derived from the bogeyman) are based on fear. Poisoned reservoirs, anthrax attacks, the visage of Satan in the World Trade Center smoke and the Klingerman virus (which supposedly arrives through the mail on a sponge in a blue envelope marked "A Gift for You from the Klingerman Foundation") all play...
...three years instead of 10. The prince admitted, however, that many Saudis had gone off to the other side. The Shehhi tribe of the impoverished southwestern province of Asir had provided some of the 10,000 fighters in the Afghan war against the Soviets. Many remained to fight alongside Osama bin Laden, who is virulently opposed to U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia. Variants of the name al-Shehhi are readily evident among the Sept. 11 hijackers...
...White House also has to find ways to show that things are happening, that the war is being waged and won. Bush is conscious of the problem. When he discovered the Treasury Department was slated to announce that the Administration had frozen the assets of Osama bin Laden and 27 organizations linked to his terror network--a relatively minor initiative--the President nixed the idea. Instead, Bush himself made the announcement, from the Rose Garden, declaring the move "a major thrust of our war on terrorism...