Word: waller
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...brought to justice. At the same time, Tanzanian authorities on Monday rounded up what appear to be "the usual suspects". But don't expect to see this case resolved any time soon. "The U.S. has a mixed record in solving terrorist attacks outside our borders," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. Arrests have been made in only 8 of the 24 major attacks against American targets since 1979, and Washington has retaliated militarily only once. "Even in the cases that have been solved, the process has often taken four or five years," Waller adds...
...bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania indicates what may be a new trend: "With airline security having been beefed up and U.S. embassies in the Middle East now heavily fortified, we may see an increase in car-bomb attacks at more vulnerable facilities," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "Africa has traditionally been a low-risk area and our embassies there aren't heavily protected. But these attacks show that terrorists prefer the path of least resistance...
...major local anti-U.S. militancy, is leading U.S. intelligence to concentrate on outside Islamic fundamentalist groups -- although there is little to indicate the involvement of any state-sponsored group. "The growing number of non-state actors committing such acts is a problem for intelligence agencies," says Waller, "because they're much more difficult to penetrate...
...modulating its level of violence in Kosovo. But if reports are confirmed that more than 500 civilian corpses were buried in a mass grave, the West may be forced to act. "NATO has been sitting back and waiting for the Serbs to cross a threshold," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "They'll think long and hard before attacking, because to protect Western pilots NATO will have to disable the Serbs' air defenses, and that means striking throughout Serbia...
...abrupt termination of talks with Richard Butler suggests that Saddam may be preparing to again suspend cooperation with the U.N. weapons inspectors. And that could be Washington's best hope: "If the Iraqis overplay their hand and get belligerent, that could provoke the Security Council into continuing sanctions," says Waller. Indeed, without Saddam Hussein's legendary capacity for overreaction, sanctions might already have been history...