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...after he returned home from Afghanistan still hungry for more jihad. Soon after, according to Turki, bin Laden began taking veterans of the Afghan war to North Yemen to fight the Marxist regime in the Republic of South Yemen. "North Yemen is an arms market. You can buy a weapon anywhere. He had to be stopped," says Turki. "The kingdom said, 'You have done your best to help the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Leave it at that.' He was not pleased...
...fault and the military an archaic and expensive nuisance. The N.P. admires strong men and manly virtues--courage and self-sacrifice. In the Vietnam years, the massive "daisy-cutter" bomb represented everything brutal and inhumane about the American war; in Afghanistan last week, it seemed just another useful weapon...
...Economic Weapon...
Does Osama Bin Laden really have nuclear weapons? Speculation grew more heated last week, at least partly because reports were so wildly uneven. Case in point: bin Laden's declaration about having the Bomb lost something on its way to print in Pakistan but could be found in the translation. In the English-language daily Dawn, readers got the full blast: "We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us, we reserve the right to use them." But that's not what was available in the daily Ausaf, which is published in Urdu...
...show a weapon, but he pointed to his pocket and made threatening comments indicating...