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...Tale of the Tape...
...White House's release of the smoking-gun bin Laden videotape, in which he discusses with evident pleasure the attacks of Sept. 11, proved that this Administration is guilty of violating its own rules [THE BIN LADEN TAPE, Dec. 24]. Weren't the media warned to limit all bin Laden broadcasts because of the fear they might contain secret encoded messages? So where were the concerns about this tape? Or was the caution unfounded--a fabrication to limit our press freedoms? This Administration was originally afraid that the words of bin Laden might have gained him sympathy in this country...
...commentary "Awfully Ordinary," about how bin Laden looked on the tape, Lance Morrow called him "the John Gotti of jihad" for his delusion of self-importance [ESSAY, Dec. 24]. I couldn't help thinking of another comparison: Charles Manson. Both bin Laden and Manson collected mentally unstable, fringe-element losers to carry out the cold-blooded murder of innocent people. In their psychotic logic, both men expected to trigger revolutions that would lead them to power. Bin Laden is not a supervillain or a super anything. He's really just a Charles Manson with a rich daddy. KEVIN COLE Seattle...
...biggest problem, as it so often is, is money. The dry rot at the CDC labs in Atlanta--where leaky walls are repaired with duct tape and a sputtering power system caused a blackout during the height of anthrax testing last fall--is only the most conspicuous part of the problem. Funding throughout the agency is so meager that members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service--a sort of disease SWAT team--cannot afford even such basic field equipment as two-way pagers...
Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...