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...quietly assembling the most extensive database ever created of the fingerprints of international terrorists. The expanding collection of prints of Al-Qaeda operatives and members of some 30 other terrorist groups is being amassed from the files of police and security services in Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Western Europe and other cooperative nations where violent radicals have operated. The prints are digitized so they can be searched. The advantage: A suspect whose prints are in the system won't be able to spoof it by giving a phony name and false documents...
...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...
...candidate, George W. Bush was opposed to nation building and military intervention without clearly stated mission goals and extraction plans, but now he's involving us in exactly those things. The Philippines, Georgia, Yemen, Iraq--Bush is putting together a war without end. He may not have learned any lessons from Vietnam, but he did master the key one from his father's last election, and he is determined to see that the war continues until after Election Day. JEFFREY J. MARIOTTE San Diego
...world, briefing them on Afghanistan, Pakistan and his recent trip to Korea, Japan and China. But the next morning Daschle and Gephardt learned what he had left out. They woke up to a headline that said Bush was considering sending military advisers to fight al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen. It was a major development, but Bush had not mentioned it. Daschle and Gephardt were furious...
...Bush's vertiginous approval ratings, continued public support for the war and the relative lack of opposition overseas--has persuaded Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to broaden the scope of military operations and planning. The idea isn't just to shut down al-Qaeda sanctuaries in places like the Philippines, Yemen and Georgia but also to target and remove dangerous regimes developing weapons of mass destruction that could be used against the U.S. or its allies. For proponents of this new, more assertive foreign policy--premised on the use of military power to destroy potential threats to U.S. security before they...