Word: tactic
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...through his personality and policies has cleaved a land of already divided loyalties. But it is clear that in his quest for a second term, Bush is seeking to be the beneficiary of an America separated into two opposing camps. By default or design, the Democrats are mirroring this tactic. It's an ancient strategy: divide and conquer. How voters react will help determine whether those Elite Force Aviator dolls will still be selling at Christmas 2004 or languishing on eBay. --With reporting by Pat Dawson/Billings, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Mitch Frank/New York, Noah Isackson/Chicago, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines, Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit...
...seem to have abandoned any concerns about causing Muslim deaths or alienating Muslim public opinion. "You have Islamist terrorists attacking innocent victims as an indirect manner of striking Arab or Islamic governments that militants condemn as corrupt," says the adviser to Morocco's King. France's Jacquard calls the tactic a new "strategy of rupture." The purpose, he says, is to force Muslims "to finally, fatally decide whether they are for or against righteous jihad." Jacquard says Saudi intelligence officials told him the Riyadh bombers who struck on Nov. 8 picked their target, knowing the apartment complex housed many Arabs...
...tactic may backfire. The Saudi bombings pushed the complacent royal regime to crack down hard. In the past six months, Saudi police say they have foiled at least four plots, including a threat against the Holy Mosque in Mecca and a plan to assassinate leading Saudi writers and intellectuals who oppose Islamic extremism. More than 400 arrests have produced a wealth of information showing how al-Qaeda is honeycombed throughout the kingdom. Police raids have uncovered explosives, caches of rifles and operational necessities like computers, cell phones, counterfeit passports and disguises. Officers even found a stash of dresses and wigs...
...news anchor and correspondent Bob Woodruff, on the other hand, said that he thought the tactic of embedded reporting during the recent Iraq war allowed reporters comparatively more freedom...
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