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...given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand in 2003 and is in U.S. custody.) As J.I.'s chief strategist, and as a charismatic recruiter, Nurdin is more dangerous than Azahari, says Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the International Crisis Group. What's more, adds terrorism expert Zachary Abuza of the United States Institute of Peace, Azahari has been passing his skills to a new generation...
...This was a big loss for Arnold, but not yet a fatal blow," says Allan Hoffenblum, a Los Angeles-based Republican strategist."The question now is how does he reconnect with voters who supported him [in the recall election] in 2003 but who abandoned him this time?" For Schwarzenegger to reconnect, Hoffenblum says, "he has to calm down the rhetoric, stop being the celebrity and start being the governor...
...with Catholic missionaries, when he took a one-year leave from Harvard Law School to service as principal of a vocational school teaching carpentry and welding to teenagers in Honduras. Red, white and blue "Catholics for Kaine" bumper stickers proliferated in the Old Dominion. David Eichenbaum, Kaine's media strategist, tells TIME that he sees a recipe for national Democrats in Kaine's victory in Virginia, a GOP stronghold that President Bush won by 8 points in 2000 and 9 points in 2004. "Talking about his faith gave people a comfort level that he wasn't a big, scary liberal...
...Indeed, Bush's sinking poll ratings created what Republicans delicately called an "environmental problem" for Kilgore. One Republican strategist said the "headwinds" of Bush's problems, including chaos in Iraq and the indictment of a close aide, were compounded by "flank winds" of tawdry headlines about Republicans in Congress. Kilgore, with his light schedule and mountain twang, was friendly and earnest, but short on what consultants call "candidate skills." A column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Sunday said his voice sounded "like Gomer Pyle on helium." The Associated Press called the race for Kaine...
...record of protecting freedom of expression doesn't help matters. Also, it's pretty hard to demonize a man who regularly donned a uniform when coaching Little League and once spent a week of vacation at the Philadelphia Phillies fantasy baseball camp. The White House, says Democratic strategist Joel Johnson, "has accomplished the task of getting beyond the base problem in a way that has not completely lit the opposition on fire." A disappointed Democrat summed up the problem this way: "He's a nice guy, and he doesn't drool...