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...also killed an antiterror policeman, eliminated most of the "material authors" of the train bombings who were still at large. But no one in Europe is resting easy. For though the tape may have been Fakhet's final testament, it's hardly the last we'll hear from the terror groups that may have helped him. Here's a look at some of the big questions - answered and unanswered - in Europe's antiterror campaign. Who headed the Spanish cell? Investigative judge Juan del Olmo believes Fakhet, the man on the tape, was the "dynamizing element" of the Spanish cell. Although...
...Similarly, the need for basing rights for the Afghanistan operation prompted the U.S. to crown Uzbekistan's authoritarian President Islam Karimov as an ally. But Human Rights Watch this week noted that President Karimov is using the war on terror as an excuse to mount a massive crackdown on all Muslims who want to practice their faith independently of the government. Some observers believe that this week's outbreak of bombings and shootings directed against the police in Uzbek cities may be rooted not only in local al-Qaeda linked groups, but also in response to President Karimov's repression...
...playing short-handed right now. Kerry has to respond to criticism from both President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney, and the democratic candidate is at a decided disadvantage in fundraising as a one man show. The media’s focus on the War on Terror and the Sept. 11 Commission in recent weeks has also taken the spotlight off Kerry just as soon as he was getting into candidate mode...
...Critics, however, won't have been disabused of their claim that the strategic mindset of Rice and other top officials had left the administration's focus before 9/11 on issues such as missile defense at the expense of grasping the immediacy of the terror threat. Expect to see discussion about the August 6 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing referred to repeatedly during Dr. Rice's testimony occupying plenty of headline space for some weeks to come - its very headline "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" suggests that the President was alerted to the general danger...
...officials have vowed to eliminate the Sadrist militia, but the movement may prove resilient. Indeed, the underground organization it maintained inside Iraq in the teeth of Baathist terror - Moqtada's uncle, a revered Grand Ayatollah who was once a rival to Sistani, as well as his father and brothers were assassinated by agents of Saddam's regime - gave it a head start on all the political organizations returning from exile after the regime fell. Within weeks of Baghdad's capture, the Sadrist movement had emerged as the most organized political force in Iraq. That legacy will make the movement difficult...