Word: terrorism
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...Sept. 11 commission, Lehman has been privy to classified intelligence on al Qaeda. “There is no doubt in my mind,” he told the commission in July, “that [Iraq] trained them in how to prepare and deliver anthrax and to use terror weapons.” It’s impossible to know, of course, just how strong the evidence to which Lehman referred might be. But if it’s as compelling and unassailable as he implies, one wonders when President Bush will deem the moment right to ask that...
MICAH HALPERN Terrorism expert and author of What You Need to Know About: Terror...
Terrorists don't just wake up one morning and decide to hate the United States. The only thing that really happened in Iraq is that we brought the target closer to them--there are Americans walking around there right now. It's not that the war generated terror, it just provided an easier target. All these other people who normally would not have had the opportunity to strike out against American targets now have them close by. Iraq has become a magnet. But these are people with divergent opinions about the world. There are staunch secularists and nationalists together with...
JOHN L. ESPOSITO Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and author of Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam...
...assault against wanted Palestinian militants. As the elite unit reviewed its plans, Israeli intelligence officials phoned the commanders with an updated mission. A suspected terrorist had been tracked to a residential building in Nablus, the densely populated Palestinian city known to Israelis as the West Bank's capital of terror. In the past year Israeli forces claim to have caught or killed 120 Palestinians with plans to head from Nablus to Israel to carry out a suicide bombing. Dan, 27, the burly commander of the reconnaissance unit of the Israeli army's Nahal Brigade, knew he had to strike fast...