Word: sudan
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...despite new U.N. sanctions. A finding tying Bin Laden to the Cole attack will, of course, beg the question of U.S. retaliation. But there's no easy way of striking back at an adversary with few fixed assets. President Clinton's 1998 cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and the Sudan were, at best, a singularly ineffective response and at worst played right into Bin Laden's hands by anointing him the most feared enemy of the U.S. in an Arab world whose hostility to Washington is growing...
...world, and also - more ominously - to go in search of the weapons of mass destruction that would dramatically increase their ability to hurt their foes. Bin Laden has managed to operate precisely by taking advantage of the limits of central authority in such failed or failing states as Sudan, Yemen and Afghanistan. The United Nations Security Council this week, under U.S. urging, imposed new sanctions against Afghanistan in order to press them to surrender Bin Laden. But sanctions were a more effective weapon in an earlier era, when terrorist networks were ultimately dependent on sponsorship by states such as Libya...
...People fled," she says. "Some died on the way of hunger, of thirst. They went to the Sudan, but the conditions there were terrible...
...From no-man's land in the Sudan to the city--to Cambridge," Argaw says...
...forum ended on a passionate note, with Andy D. Litinsky '04 drawing loud applause as he said he planned to talk about the situation in the Sudan to the new members of the House of Representatives, who will be visiting Harvard next week...