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...allied intelligence agencies have battered its core transnational networks, al-Qaeda as a movement or an idea - as distinct from a narrow clandestine organizational network - has actually grown. Analysts believe the international intelligence and security cooperation has severely impeded al-Qaeda's ability to conduct highly sophisticated transnational terror operations such as the attacks in New York and Washington, but that Bin Laden's movement has adapted by morphing into a far more decentralized entity relying principally on the structures and energies of pre-existing local groups ideologically in synch with al-Qaeda. The perpetrators of last Saturday's Istanbul...
...Institute of International Strategic Studies in London (which hosted President Bush's speech on Wednesday) believe that al-Qaeda has successfully capitalized on the upsurge of worldwide Muslim outrage over the invasion to swell its ranks. And the escalating insurgency confronting U.S. troops in Iraq - punctuated by regular suicide terror attacks reminiscent of those committed by al Qaeda - may be amplifying Bin Laden's message that the path of jihad can defeat the U.S. and redeem Arab honor...
Some have argued that because these men are not fighting for a nation, the POW label does not apply. But if America is embroiled in a “War on Terror,” the logic should be consistent. The U.S. is battling against global terrorism that knows no state boundaries, and new definitions of old ideas such as POWs are badly needed. Though the world community is different from the one that gathered in the Geneva Convention in 1949, the principles of human and civil rights have not changed...
...That emerging ?lite is Task Force 88, an Indonesian crack police unit created by the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service as part of its program to develop local antiterrorism specialists in countries allied with Washington in the war on terror. More than $12 million has been spent by the U.S. to build a top-notch training school in Megamendung, some 50 kilometers south of Jakarta, where an academy belonging to the national police once stood. The four-hectare site features a "shoot house" for simulated hostage-taking situations, a breaching area to practice setting door charges...
...terror is over. It’s taken two years, billions of dollars and thousands of bombs, but finally, Afghan women are strutting around in bikinis. Let freedom ring...