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...Qaeda was structured like corporate America, you'd have a chairman of the board still in office, but many of the key operators would no longer be around." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, explaining his government's success in tracking down many of the terror group's top officers while failing to find Osama bin Laden...
...absence of non-violent channels of expressing political and national anger and aspirations creates a certain inevitability about terrorism. Ask the Israelis: During his successful 1999 campaign to become prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak shared this startling observation with the Israeli daily Haaretz: "I imagine that if I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would, at some stage, have joined one of the terror organizations...
...Palestinian experience offers an additional important pointer - and so does Lebanon. Both demonstrate how if democracy is to function as a counter to terrorism, then the process must make space for organizations that have previously chosen the terror option to compete for power in legitimate institutions. Hezbollah is currently the single largest party in Lebanon's parliament, having parlayed the widespread legitimacy enjoyed by its military campaign against the Israeli occupation, which ended in 2000, into an important share of the political pie. Today, the Lebanese opposition is all too aware that Hezbollah is effectively the political representative of Lebanon...
...disaster. Look no further than Algeria to see why: In 1991, the military regime there yielded to pressure and held elections. But when it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front had won the first phase of the poll, democracy was abruptly canceled. The result was a savage terror backlash that has seen more than 100,000 Algerians killed over the past decade, and helped swell the ranks of al-Qaeda (the U.S. and France backed the military regime). If a new generation of young Egyptians see their calls for change dashed in a sham election, al-Qaeda may well...
Feith has come under heavy criticism over the past few years for his role in coordinating the U.S. strategy in the war on terror and his involvement in the Office of Special Plans (OSP)—a governmental office created during his tenure designed to examine intelligence...