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...economy, vs. 25% who say terrorism. LOWERED EXPECTATIONS In October, 61% said the U.S. needed to capture or kill Osama bin Laden for the war to be considered a victory; the current figure is 46%. ON TO IRAQ? Fully 73% would support the U.S.'s sending ground troops to overthrow Saddam Hussein...
...have just witnessed something new in the modern world: the rollback of Islamic fundamentalism. We have just witnessed the first overthrow of a radical Islamic regime, indeed, the destruction of radical Islam's home base. Yesterday the base was Afghanistan. Today it is a few caves and a few hidden cells throughout the world. Al-Qaeda controls no state, no sovereign territory. It is an outlaw...
...Meanwhile, elements of al-Qaeda could move in under cover of these groups - or worse yet, try to find a friendly home there by joining forces with Pakistan's hard-line religious parties to overthrow Musharraf and install an Islamic regime. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal alone makes that an alluring goal. For his survival, Musharraf will have to get Pakistan out of the terrorism business...
...involved. Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of “Just One of Those Things” will definitely be involved. Semi-obsessive men will be involved, probably Latin political operatives instead of drunken WASPs. Her CIA underlings will be confused by e-mails like “overthrow Chilean government sadfjkasdfjkhsdf heh heh -Frances.” We can hope, too: that she finds success and happiness in the world of global political intrigue. So goodbye, dear, and amen. Here’s hoping we meet now and then...
...violence to stop this week's election for his successor. The government deployed thousands of troops and more than 100 rebels were killed. Police in Malaysia later nabbed Misuari, who has been stripped of his powers EGYPT Military Trial Ninety-four alleged Islamic extremists denied charges of plotting to overthrow the state at the opening of their trial in a military court near Cairo. Several of the mainly Egyptian defendants protested their innocence from a cage in the courtroom. Most of them were arrested in May on charges of collecting donations for the Palestinian uprising and for Chechnya, but more...