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...denied responsibility for some of the attacks, bin Laden is still widely considered the world's prime villain after the legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal; the State Department last year labeled bin Laden "one of the most significant sponsors of Sunni Islamic terrorist groups." He seeks to overthrow the Saudi royal family and drive U.S. forces out of Saudi Arabia, away from its holy cities, Mecca and Medina. Bin Laden is nearly everyone's favorite suspect this time too--largely because he is the obvious one. Newsday reported on Sunday that a relatively low-level associate of bin Laden...
...terrorism, the years of skyjackings and Lebanese horrors, the purpose was usually obvious, a bloody form of bargaining, and the perpetrators trumpeted their responsibility; the message got across only if it was signed. But more recent practitioners, like the men who leveled an American military barracks in Saudi Arabia two years ago or set off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympic Games, rarely call in with their names or seek a discernible result. Theirs may be acts of recruitment to win adherents to some fanatic's cause, or of a secret vengeance. Above all, the anonymous blasts from the blue...
...large majority of terrorists who carried out operations--those who bombed the U.S. embassy in Beirut, American peacekeepers in Lebanon, U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, Pan Am 103; those who hijacked TWA 847 and shot up the Rome and Vienna airports--have never been caught or punished. Countries long deemed the fountainheads of terrorism, like Iran, Syria and Sudan, have never felt the sting of U.S. retaliation. Even so, as the Administration dispatched its teams of investigators to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Berger vowed that the U.S. would succeed. Said he: "Our strongest weapon is our persistence...
Highest on the U.S. list at the moment is Saudi renegade millionaire Osama bin Laden. Over the past year or so, he has issued a number of decrees, calling on all Muslim groups to attack U.S. facilities. Bin Laden is thought to be a major financier of terror groups and is the prime suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers military barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. While his declared goal is the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, bin Laden's bitterness toward the U.S. is just as strong. "All Muslims," he said last...
...perpetrators very often turn out to be someone other than the first suspects." The arrests in Tanzania of three groups of foreign nationals appears, at this stage, to be a speculative sweep. On the positive side, unlike the frustrating investigation into the 1996 attack on U.S. personnel in Saudi Arabia, officials believe that local authorities will more fully cooperate. But perhaps the most important factor is Washington's unimpeachable record of persistence -- the U.S. has never closed the file on a terrorist case...