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Though the Bali bombing was particularly sickening, it was part of a greater spasm of violence that has counterterrorism officials bracing for more. The CIA believes that the outrage was the work of Muslim extremists belonging to the Southeast Asian group Jemaah Islamiah, which the U.S. believes is closely linked with al-Qaeda, the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden. And al-Qaeda, CIA Director George Tenet said in congressional testimony last week, is now in "execution phase." Indeed, senior U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME that they fear a recent spate of terrorist attacks around the world...
Destruction of forests has helped cause the worst spasm of extinctions since the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years...
...There is a certain irony in all this. At least for the foreseeable future, the damage done by an al-Qaeda bomb plot is likely to be miniscule compared to the kind of vast nuclear spasm "The Sum of all Fears" toys with. But fatalism is the only possible response to deadly games playing at that level. You can only hope the guys in suits also have their thinking caps on. If not, well Que Sera Sera as Hitch (with a little help from Doris Day) once memorably...
...Gaza, as Sharon's administration launched what it called a "counter-guerrilla war" in the Palestinian territories. Nine Palestinians were killed the previous day in retaliation for a dramatic guerrilla attack that killed six Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Ramallah. More than 40 people have died in a spasm of bloodletting since Monday, from which two simple facts emerged: Palestinian militants have honed the sophistication and focus of their armed actions to maximum military and political effect; and the strategies pursued until now by Sharon have patently failed to bring Israelis the security he promised on the campaign trail...
...events of September 11 galvanized many disparate groups. Who would have thought that comicbooks would be one of them? From the mainstream standard-bearers to the marginalized self-publisher, a spasm of creativity has produced an extraordinary group of works about the events of September 11 and their aftermath. Through an unprecedented cooperative effort the comics press has found a way to revitalize its relevance in popular culture. Thanks to their speed and reproducibility comics have succeeded in providing the first national-scale artistic interpretations of this twenty-first-century international crisis...