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...Mideast expert Mansoor Ijaz—who negotiated Sudan’s 1997 counterrorism offer to the Clinton administration—has noted, the Mukhabarat headquarters also yielded proof that the regime had funded Abu Sayyaf, al Qaeda??s regional affiliate in Southeast Asia, through its embassy in Manila. This matches up with reports by Philippine intelligence. Indeed, the Philippine government expelled Husham Hussain, deputy secretary of the Iraqi embassy, in February for terrorist connections. Phone records show that Hussain called two leading members of Abu Sayyaf directly before and directly after an Abu Sayyaf bombing in Zamboanga...
...scorching Arab summer; maybe thousands of American soldiers will not be cut down in street fighting in Baghdad; maybe Saddam, realizing he has nothing left to lose, will not fire off whatever biological or chemical weapons he possesses; maybe the war will not act as a boon to al Qaeda??America’s real enemy in the “War Against Terrorism”—as they seek to portray the U.S. as violent, anti-Muslim aggressors. Maybe...
...enough to demonstrate that Bush’s war on terror has faltered, this string of attacks shows without doubt that al Qaeda remains capable of carrying out small- and large-scale terrorist operations. In a way, this is unsurprising; it would have been impossible to completely destroy al Qaeda??s capabilities immediately. The war on terror will be long, and it will be painful; there will be both setbacks and progress. But it is not too much to expect that it would receive the administration’s undivided attention. Yet just over a year after Sept...
...thing to do would be to remove the warlords from power. But that would require tremendous force. The Soviets had hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan, yet they were never able to gain full control of the country. Now that U.S. and Northern Alliance forces have dismantled al Qaeda??s Afghanistan operation, Washington is looking to pack up and leave, not expand the force. The remaining foreign soldiers, comprising an International Security Assistance Force led by Britain, is only 4,800 strong and its mandate is limited to Kabul. Both Karzai and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
...system? The first step: refocus the agency’s enforcement efforts. The Senate is just starting to take the issue seriously, with Finance Committee hearings this week. Offshore accounts would be a good place to start; the same bank secrecy laws that protect tax cheats also keep al-Qaeda??s money safe. The U.S. should make financial transparency a condition of doing business with American companies...