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...sweeping language that critics called hyperbole, Bush defined terrorism as being much broader than al-Qaeda and warned that militants have vowed to establish "a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia." Bush, who rarely mentions Osama bin Laden, invoked the name five times in this kill-or-be-killed speech, which he had planned to give on Sept. 12 but postponed because of Katrina. To the dismay of aides--some White House wordsmiths, including Michael Gerson, had been working on the remarks since July--the news coverage dwelled on two sentences about 10 plots Bush said...
...plans to push deeper into the mountains of Zabul and Uruzgan provinces in the coming weeks. The aim is to scatter the Taliban from their hideouts and prevent them from returning to sanctuaries in nearby Pakistan--where U.S. forces can't venture and where their ultimate prey, Osama bin Laden, may be hiding. U.S. and Afghan officials believe that the war against the Taliban will go on for months, perhaps years. The longer the Taliban survives, the tougher it will become for the U.S. to penetrate the trails that might lead to al-Qaeda's boss. That reality is more...
...Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, claimed responsibility for the attacks in two videotapes, one of which also featured a recording by the apparent ringleader, 30-year-old Mohammed Sidique Khan. TIME has learned that Khan, who described himself in the tape as a "soldier" inspired by Osama bin Laden, may have had a much more direct and long-term involvement with al-Qaeda than previously thought?and also a connection to Southeast Asian terrorist groups. A regional security official tells TIME that an Islamic radical currently detained in Malaysia has admitted that he acted as Khan's guide...
...Abrash Ghalyoun, for whom the prosecution HAD also demanded 74,000 years. The court found that there was insufficient proof that his video films of the WTC and other prominent U.S. buildings were acts of surveillance in a terrorist plot. Taysir Alony, the al-Jazeera journalist who interviewed Osama Bin Laden shortly after 9/11, was found guilty of membership of a terrorist organization and sentenced to seven years instead of the nine demanded by the prosecutor...
...failed rocket assault on a U.S. ship in the Red Sea. It's hard to separate the man from the mythology, but recent European intelligence reports reviewed by TIME suggest that al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda franchise is expanding far beyond Iraq and that he now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists...