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Some were just passing through, en route to Indonesia, Yemen and the Arabian Gulf. According to diplomats, a few al-Qaeda fugitives may have been given money and transport to get out of Pakistan by sympathetic staff at an Arab consulate in Karachi. Bangladeshi intelligence sources say that in the same month, a Saudi-owned vessel smuggled 150 al-Qaeda and Taliban members out of Karachi to the Bangladeshi port of Chittagong...
...Tbaiti's primary mission, Moroccan officials believe, was to prepare a sequel to the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole Yemen, that killed 17 Americans. Tbaiti's controller, sources tell TIME, was the same operative - an Al Qaeda commander known as Mullah Blal - who directed the Cole bombing in October 2000. The sources say that within the past month, Al Tbaiti and at least one of the other Saudi suspects traveled to the northern Moroccan coast to launch preparations for attacking a U.S. or British warship passing through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. Using the meticulous planning for the Cole operation...
...investigators had some reasons for being preoccupied with attacks and threats outside the U.S. Al-Qaeda's most notorious blows against American interests had taken place in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the sites of the 1998 embassy bombings, and in Yemen, where the U.S.S. Cole was bombed in October 2000. And in the first half of last year, the CSG monitored information suggesting the likelihood of another attack overseas. In June 2001, the State Department issued a worldwide caution warning American citizens of possible attacks. That month, says a recently retired senior FBI official, "we were constantly worried that...
...screens cannot begin to convey the feel and smell, the human truth, of another culture. And all of us are lucky enough to live at a time when the far corners of the world are more accessible physically than ever before. The minute I got off the plane in Yemen last summer, I could see how everything I thought I knew about that country was wrong and how far most of its people lived emotionally from, say, the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Southern Yemen. Likewise, the minute a Yemeni sets foot in New York City...
Moral clarity in foreign policy is a virtue, as all but the most cynical, superior Europeans would concede. The blunt language that Bush used after Sept. 11 sent a message, and it was heeded. Countries like Pakistan and Yemen were left in no doubt as to where their interests lay, and they acted accordingly. But in the muddled, shades-of-gray world of great-power politics, neither moralism nor clarity can ever be enough. That lesson the Bush Administration has now learned. Pity about Chechnya...