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...RAND, religious conviction is what gives terrorists strength, but "the armed struggle is what holds them together." If there are terrorism analysts anywhere in the world who think the armed struggle is over, they are keeping mighty quiet. Al-Qaeda "would love to pull off a spectacular," says Ranstorp, using the terrorism watchers' term for a large-scale attack, "but they will be exceptionally patient." At the end of a good week, the question for the U.S and its allies is whether they will be as patient as their enemy. --With reporting by Brian Bennett/Karachi; Douglas Waller, Elaine Shannon, John...
...easy to forget, with all this talk of launching a war against Saddam Hussein, that a quiet one has been under way for the past 11 years right over his territory. It's a war that has produced few headlines, no diplomatic showdowns and no American dead from Iraqi fire. But in some ways this forgotten war is training the pilots who may have to take on Saddam better than any exercise over an Arizona desert ever could. Indeed, as President Bush hurled rhetorical thunderbolts at Saddam from a United Nations podium last week, the Iraqi leader's troops were...
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...bells in Washington. U.S. calls for action against Islamic militants in Indonesia have been ratcheted up in recent weeks. President Bush discussed the issue with Megawati in a Sept. 16 phone call; the next day, the director for Asian affairs of the National Security Council, Karen Brooks, made a quiet two-day visit to Jakarta. While those conversations amounted to polite encouragement, the U.S. has also been using the threat of harsher tactics to bring Megawati into line. Washington is threatening to officially classify JI as a foreign terrorist organization, as well as possibly Ba'asyir himself as a terrorist...
...General Kurt Waldheim reproached it as a “clear contravention of international law.” Even U.S. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick, one of the Reagan Administration’s staunchest supporters of Israel, was forced to admonish the raid. “The means Israel chose to quiet its fears,” she told the Security Council, “have hurt, not helped, the peace and security of the area...