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...wipe out Abu Sayyaf? Is that frustrating for you? It's complicated, as I think the world has seen in the problem of getting Osama bin Laden and wiping out al-Qaeda. We have been able to break the back of the Abu Sayyaf in the sense that where there used to be thousands [of members], now there are only hundreds. Just as Osama bin Laden has been able to reign, so has the most notorious of the Abu Sayyaf still been able to reign, and that's Abu Sabaya. Many, many people think that Basilan is a little island...
...heavily armed, and dangerous. And besides their historic links with al Qaeda, they continue to pose a terrorist threat to U.S. citizens - the organization currently holds hostage the Wichita, Kansas couple Martin and Gracia Burnham, and last year kidnapped and beheaded Californian Guillermo Sobero. Sending U.S. troops to help wipe out Abu Sayyaf may be part of a strategy to eliminate havens of lawlessness in which al Qaeda may attempt to regroup. It's a project enthusiastically supported by the Philippine government, which has made heavy weather of its own efforts to destroy the group, and even fellow Muslim secessionists...
...that only 3.5% of the new spending would come from direct-mail campaigns. He doesn't expect the anthrax scare to make a permanent dent in those numbers. And even if more poisonous letters emerge in the months ahead, they're not likely to wipe out direct mail. Says Blank: "People are just very attached to paper...
...always does, by calling members into account on previous promises. It was Tommy Franks' turn to be on the spot. The Centcom chief had promised several days earlier that by now special forces would have made it into Afghanistan from Uzbekistan, providing the crucial targeting information necessary to wipe out the Taliban's frontline positions. "Has it happened?" Bush asked. Franks did not have the right answer. The weather had been poor, and the U.S. spotters were stranded on the ground in Uzbekistan. The State Department was having difficulty getting permission to use Uzbek territory as a staging site...
Another reason for the enrollment surge is that Palestinians now view their struggle less as a liberation conflict and more as war against an implacable enemy intent on their destruction (just as most Israelis are now convinced the Palestinians want to wipe them off the map). "The starting point is not religion," says a cleric. "It is a state of desperation at facing Ariel Sharon and his army...