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...similar vein, the arrest of Padilla, for all the frightening claims that Ashcroft made for his plot, may reveal a weakness in al-Qaeda's position rather than a strength. Al-Qaeda appears to be relying on irregulars--inexperienced, unsophisticated operatives like Padilla and, for that matter, Reid--rather than the highly trained, disciplined jihadis who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. In the view of many experts on Islamic terrorism, converts to Islam who grew up in the West sometimes lack the deep conviction of those born into the faith who grew up in its Arab heartlands...
When President Bush makes public this week his plan for the creation of a Palestinian state, the exact shape his proposal takes will be crucial to more than just the future of the Middle East peace process. It will also reveal the outcome of another bitter struggle--the one between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Administration hard-liners, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney...
...problem is to replace clericalism with laism," Bishop Wilton Gregory, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told TIME. "I do not see the Catholic Church becoming a democracy." That was not Jesus' vision, he contends; and it is not the church that Scripture and tradition reveal. The touchiness on all sides was displayed on Friday when the conference canceled its Dallas invitation to a major victims group because the group had filed suit against the bishops on Thursday...
...passport holder asking to be taught how to kill his countrymen?) but not necessarily integrated into the organization he was desperate to join. The fact that the authorities arrested Padilla immediately on his arrival in Chicago rather than following him around in the hope that he would reveal al-Qaeda operatives already on U.S. soil says volumes about how little may have known about the organization...
...into the waiting arms of the FBI. That was a month ago; the story broke this week because the authorities had to move him out of the criminal justice system and into military detention, for lack of evidence (at least evidence which the government would be willing to reveal to a judge) to support keeping him in prison. By week's end, the nation's focus was on the constitutional and legal challenges posed by denying a U.S. citizen the rights of due process, rather than the threat presented by Padilla's discussions and training. Unkind voices in Washington even...