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...Maybe the more interesting question is what anyone, bin Laden or otherwise, had to gain from it. If it was someone else piggybacking on al-Qaeda's publicity, they defeated the whole purpose of putting a scare into the media by not identifying themselves or giving their reasons. Given that the raison d'etre of terrorism is to generate attention and useful fear for a cause, any other group is wasting its spores by sending out an unacknowledged attack that Americans are likely to credit to someone else...
...separate tracks are carefully interwoven: U.S. officials tell TIME that their immediate plan is to scare bin Laden and his aides out of hiding; gather as much intelligence as possible about their whereabouts; deploy commandos in and around Afghanistan to strike quickly if bin Laden can be found; and reassure Muslim leaders constantly that American war aims are limited. And as the President said Saturday, "Full warning has been given, and time is running...
...counts in this category the 1992-94 mission by U.S. troops to mostly Muslim Somalia as part of a U.N. effort to assist a famine-starved population caught between battling warlords. In bin Laden's book, the troop landing was simply a show of force by the U.S. "to scare the Muslim world, saying that it is able to do whatever it desires." He asked, "How can we believe your claims that you came to save our children in Somalia while you kill our children in all those [other] places?"--meaning Iraq, Bosnia and, through the Israelis, Lebanon...
...been that economists "were essentially wrong" in forecasting a third-quarter recovery, says Hugh Johnson, chief investment strategist at First Albany Corp. The terror attacks of Sept. 11, our panelists agree, will trigger at least two quarters of economic decline--the classic definition of recession. "It's hard to scare American consumers out of spending, but this event did it," says Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One. Adds Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com "A bunker mentality is settling in among consumers, investors and businesses...
...meantime, there's a civil defense movie staffers can go see which is short on information but long on frightening scenarios. "It will scare the bejesus out of you," said one staffer. In one frame someone is entering the mailroom of the Longworth Building with a packet strapped inside his jacket and in the next computer-generated frame the Longworth Building blows up. It?s good for democracy that member of Congress aren?t getting special treatment. But how good is it for the Republic that they?re getting little treatment at all? Let?s hope the task force gets...