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...There are messages from Europe for Americans too. In the wake of the Afghanistan war, the U.S. has signaled that it will take action against terrorists and their supporters wherever they may be-in Yemen or Iraq or Indonesia. Yet with the camps in Afghanistan destroyed, many of the world's most dangerous terrorists are not in the Islamic world at all but in the cities of western Europe. They will be brought to justice not by U.S. special forces or B-52 pilots but by skillful forensic work and international cooperation among criminal-justice professionals. After the triumphs...
...YEMEN Showdown A raid on an alleged al-Qaeda hideout highlighted the difficulty of eradicating the radicals. At least 12 tribesmen and soldiers died after leaders in the village of al-Husoun refused to hand over suspected al-Qaeda members, responding to the military operation with gunfire and grenades. Officials said that some suspects were arrested, but several leaders escaped. Even so, Washington praised the move by Yemen, Osama bin Laden's ancestral homeland...
...Which brings us to Phase II of the war. Bush, looking to go anywhere but Iraq next, is thinking about Somalia - not a lot of pleasant associations there - and Yemen and the Sudan. Maybe Americans will take to those fights like they've taken to the strikes in Afghanistan, but the folks at home aren't exactly known for their long attention spans. This time, there'll be no nasty, women-repressing Taliban for a PR stalking horse, and no bearded, live-on-tape OBL devil to focus the will. And there are no ready-made rebels...
When the U.S.S. Cole was bombed in October 2000, Walker was back in Yemen. In an e-mail exchange with his son, Frank Lindh said he felt terrible for the victims and their families. John's reply suggested that the attack may have been justified because the Cole was docked in an Islamic country. Lindh dismissed the exchange as a "father/son debate, much like my dad and I used to have over [the] Vietnam war." A month after the Cole bombing, Walker left Yemen for Bannu, a village in Pakistan's northwest, to attend an Islamic school, or madrasah. Pakistan...
...three years in prison. CAPTURED. JOHN PHILIP WALKER LINDH, 20, an American who was among 80 Taliban survivors of the Qala-i-Jangi prison revolt; in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Lindh, who gave his name as Abdul Hamid, converted to Islam at 16 and traveled to northern Pakistan via Yemen to study Arabic and the Koran, where his divorced parents had lost touch with him. He faces possible charges of treason, but cannot be tried by the U.S. special military tribunals...