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...worked on counterterrorism in the Clinton White House: "On the whole, they're better off without Afghanistan. They now have total global mobility." Probably thousands of al-Qaeda sympathizers escaped the bombing in Afghanistan and made their way back to their home countries, traveling to Europe through Iran and Turkey or to Southeast Asia through Pakistan and Bangladesh. French officials are convinced that many graduates of the camps were sent out of Afghanistan before Sept. 11. (The five men detained in Lackawanna allegedly trained in Afghan camps in the summer of 2001.) "You have to wonder," says a French antiterrorism...
Once back in their home territories, these terrorists could well launch new attacks on American interests--one reason Tenet has warned that U.S. military installations are at risk not just in obvious places like Pakistan and Afghanistan but also in East Africa, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and beyond. Back home, says Roland Jacquard, a French terrorism analyst, the graduates of the camps "won't be plotting attacks in the heart of America, but they now feel they can attack America in their own backyards." Most terrorist acts in 2002--the bombings of a mosque in Tunisia, of a bus full...
...north and slowly began climbing. He hit the red panic button near his left knee, jettisoning his two missiles and external fuel tanks to reduce drag and let his plane fly more easily. It was nearly seven minutes before Pettyjohn finally cleared the mountains that mark the border. In Turkey he glided to an unpowered landing, then rolled to a stop with 1,000 ft. to spare...
...Israel the only country that is occupying lands claimed by others. China, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Spain, France and numerous other countries control not only land, but people who seek independence. Indeed, among these countries Israel is the only one that has offered statehood, first in 1948 when the Palestinians rejected the UN partition which would have given them a large, independent state and chose instead to invade Israel. Again in the year 2000 Palestinians were offered a state, rejected it and employed terrorism...
...criminal offenders of Turkish or Moroccan origin, even if they were born in the Netherlands and have Dutch passports. "We grant nationality too easily," he says. "We should make it easier to take it away." The idea offends Ali Aslan, 24, a Rotterdam-born steelworker whose father came from Turkey 35 years ago to work. "If you break the law, you should be punished," he says. "But send me back to my own country? That's Holland, whether they like it or not." So far a proposal for such expulsions from the new LPF Minister for Immigration and Integration Hilbrand...