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History is replete with alienated minorities that successfully assimilated and did not bomb innocent people. The angry Muslims in Europe seem to have forgotten the West's benevolence during humanitarian missions to the Muslim populations in Somalia, Bosnia and Indonesia. The West can no longer pursue appeasement. It must challenge the jihadist philosophy by using its own enduring and sacred values socially, politically and, if threatened, militarily...
...networks were run by several jihad-hardened veterans of Bosnia, Afghanistan or Chechnya," says Denécé, a former officer in French military intelligence. "Today officials are finding groups with no foreign-trained members, and only one or two external contacts with deeper al-Qaeda roots." Cells from England to Somalia manage their own ops. Consequently, says a European-based U.S. official, "their chances are low of taking over a plane again ... But they can obviously get down into the subway system. If you make yourself a harder target, you push them to softer targets...
...international terrorism in 1968, the world has feared the specter of a planeload of innocent people being destroyed, by either design or accident, in the course of a hijack drama. Over and over, at airports in the Middle East--and notably at Entebbe in Uganda and at Mogadishu in Somalia--the specter had been miraculously dispelled, the lives of innocents spared. The latest hijacking ended far more disastrously. Because of the demonstrated savagery of this particular band of terrorists, and perhaps because of mistakes made by well-intentioned governments and rescuers, only 38 of those aboard EgyptAir 648 survived...
...publicity given to such commando feats as the 1976 Israeli raid at Entebbe and West Germany's 1977 rescue operation at Mogadishu, Somalia, may have inflated expectations. The fact is that such methods heighten the risk to hostages. According to a 1977 study by the California-based Rand Corp., 79% of all hostage deaths in terrorist situations occur during rescues. Says Uri Ra'anan, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The most difficult and risky type of operation is a rescue mission. It is the most likely to lead to loss of life...
...therefore take the occasion, in writing to you out of Africa, to say that your review of the new film Out of Africa [CINEMA, Dec. 16] is wrong in saying that Karen Blixen never mentions her husband in her book. She does, twice. Peter S. Bridges U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Mogadishu...