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Osama bin Laden ASSUMED ALIVE --Pakistani and Afghan intelligence reports suggest the terror master is still living, sneaking from one mountain hideout to another along the two countries' common border. Bin Laden and his entourage are said to be traveling by foot and horseback under cloud cover, to avoid detection by surveillance aircraft...
Even as he held a photo of his son--the alleged ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers--passing through a Maine airport that morning, Mohamed Atta's father, right, in Cairo, told the German publication Bild am Sonntag he does not believe his son led the terror attacks. The senior Atta, whose name is also Mohamed, provided never-before-seen family snapshots showing a very different side...
...more than two dozen senior Republican Party operatives in pivotal states who spoke with Time--people who advise and support the President and talk regularly with him and his inner circle--say Bush underestimates the economic problems facing the country and that he is too narrowly focused on the terror war. Their worry seems well founded: in last week's TIME/CNN poll, only 30% of those surveyed said the war on terrorism would be "more important" than other issues in selecting a President in 2004. Sixty-one percent said other factors would rate higher. There is an innate reluctance...
...Bush's critics around the world are concerned about the wisdom of his approach, his G.O.P. allies at home are worried more about the politics of it. They acknowledge that the overall goal of fighting terror is vital, dovetails nicely with Bush's way of thinking and keeps the Democrats off balance. But they fear that his real challenge is growing at home, where the prospect of a double-dip recession looms. Many of these Republicans were surprised in January when Bush's strategist Karl Rove said the G.O.P. will make the President's "handling of the war on terrorism...
Some advisers worry that Bush may try to sustain that approach for two more years; they don't believe it will work. As a West Coast ally of Bush's put it last month, "Outside of Washington and New York, the terror thing is over. It is an episode that has passed. It just won't carry him. The more they try it, the more they risk their standing with the voters. Voters are increasingly asking, 'Hey, what about me?'" This adviser believes that Bush and his team "need to rejigger the purpose of his presidency for the next...