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...chances of such an attack happening anytime soon are remote, most of the terrorism experts consulted by TIME agree. For starters, it takes a lot more money to build, research or steal a weapon of mass destruction than to hijack a plane or unleash a truck bomb. It also takes a lot more brainpower. Says Amy Smithson, a chemical and biological weapons expert at the Henry Stimson Center in Washington: "I can sit here and dream up thousands of nightmare scenarios, but there are a lot of technical and logistical hurdles that stand between us and those scenarios...
Anger toward terrorists is certainly understandable, justified and necessary. But to unleash this anger on fellow citizens would be a folly. They are just as traumatized. The terrorists who perpetrated these heinous bombings would delight at the thought of America turning on itself. The white American is clearly not the only kind of American who has loyalty and pride for her nation. There is no longer one definitive American poster child. There never really...
...under tremendous domestic political pressure from its own sizable Islamist constituency to rescind its somewhat reluctant decision to support the U.S. campaign, and there are real concerns over whether General Parvez Musharraf's military government would ultimately survive the domestic political turmoil a full-blown war would almost certainly unleash...
...received a dire warning last week from Osama El Baz, national security adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. El Baz, on a visit to Washington, warned that Israelis and Palestinians "have proved themselves incapable of moving by themselves towards peace," and that their continued conflict threatened to unleash extremist forces that posed an imminent threat to U.S. allies and interests throughout the region. El Baz's warning found ironic echo in an internal strategic assessment by Israel's army, which was reported last week to have concluded that the current intifada would last for at least the next five...
...throughout the intifada and not changing. The Israelis and Americans want him to arrest the Hamas people. He either doesn?t want to or can?t. Maybe he believes it would make him look weak, and perhaps doesn?t want to because he wants to be able to unleash the violence on the Israelis, or at least threaten it - he can say "I can?t control them, it?s not me, I condemn the bombings...