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...Dean is the nominee, Republicans will inevitably portray him as a tax-raising, soft-on-terror liberal with a chip on his shoulder and no substantial alternatives to what Bush is doing. Dean intends to help remedy his where's-the-beef problem and sketch out his vision for the country with two major speeches this week. In a foreign-policy address on Monday in Los Angeles, he will call for "a new global alliance to defeat terror" and advocate a tenfold increase in funds spent on finding and eliminating unguarded nuclear, chemical and biological materials left over from...
From an escalating cycle of terror and retaliation, one would hope, should come desperation for peace. But with graveyards from Gaza to Ramallah lined with accords, plans, treaties and thousands of innocent civilians, history suggests that enough is never enough for hell-bent factions in the Holy Land. Every effort crumbles either because of bad intentions or because the best intentions, championed by moderates in both camps, are hostage to those who prefer homicide over the death of their radical dreams...
...veils of secrecy are being stripped away. Recent interrogation and intelligence reports obtained by TIME make it clear that one of JI's best-kept secrets is the ambitious scale of its training camps in Mindanao, which has replaced Afghanistan as the preferred location for learning how to wage terror. Even more alarming: more than a year after Bali, both the camps and the supply routes for recruits appear to be functioning normally...
...There are plenty of young Muslims eager to join up. Many see the global war on terror as an attempt by the West (specifically the U.S.) to crush Islam. Jihad can also provide an escape to those mired in poverty. "Even if a fraction of 1% of [Indonesia's] population is predisposed to extremism, that's a huge number," says Ken Conboy, author of Intel: Inside Indonesia's Intelligence Service. That makes blocking the pipeline to Mindanao critical. Though Malaysian, Indonesian and Philippine police all say they have stepped up patrols between Indonesia and the Philippines, their efforts...
...formula, the four main political parties share seven Cabinet seats. The SVP, campaigning on an anti-immigration, anti-E.U. platform, emerged as the biggest parliamentary party in October elections. Blocher had threatened to withdraw the SVP from the government if he was denied a Cabinet post. Tough on Terror GREECE An Athens prosecutor asked a special antiterrorism tribunal to deliver multiple life sentences against six of 15 members of the November 17 terrorist organization, including its leader, Alexandros Yiotopoulos, who were convicted for a series of murders, bombings and robberies during a 27-year reign of terror. Four were...