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...Globalization means interdependence," says Edmund Hull, U.S. ambassador to Yemen and former State Department counterterrorism chief. "We have previously seen the benefits of this interdependence. Now we are seeing its risks." That goes to the heart of any attempt to understand al-Qaeda. For the past decade, globalization has been understood as an economic process, rooted in the trade of goods and services. But the defining characteristic of our new world is not the movement of products or money but of people. Cheap air transport, the effects of decolonization and a population explosion in the poorer parts of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Club | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...Globalization means interdependence," says Edmund Hull, U.S. ambassador to Yemen and former State Department counterterrorism chief. "We have previously seen the benefits of this interdependence. Now we are seeing its risks." That goes to the heart of any attempt to understand al-Qaeda. For the past decade, globalization has been understood as an economic process, rooted in the trade of goods and services. But the defining characteristic of our new world is not the movement of products or money but of people. Cheap air transport, the effects of decolonization and a population explosion in the poorer parts of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Club: Al-Qaeda's Web of Terror | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

...needs other silent partners for the search--like locals and rebels tied to the Northern Alliance. But exaggeration and contradictions color their tales, and their sources inhabit the north while bin Laden is more likely holed up in the Pashtun territory of the south and east. Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which resisted sharing intelligence when terrorists attacked U.S. targets in their countries, have now dumped their computer files in Washington's hands. President Vladimir Putin has promised to share Russia's file on bin Laden, and Moscow is providing useful stuff on terror camp locations and military installations from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ears to the Ground | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...cleric Abu Hamza al-Marsi, who lost both hands and an eye in Afghanistan, runs Supporters of Shariah, a group that promotes "military training for brothers" and whose website last week suddenly disappeared from the Internet. Hamza, an Egyptian who came to Britain in 1981 and is wanted in Yemen for terrorism, welcomed the Sept. 11 attacks as "justified." Since then, police have been guarding the mosque - they say for the Muslims? protection, but this also makes monitoring visitors easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apostles of Anger | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...rooms like a rock star's and dream of becoming avenging Islamic warriors. The girls moon over Osama's dark, soulful eyes and dream of marrying him. Apparently, it's a wish shared by at least one father. A few months before the Sept. 11 attacks, a man from Yemen brought his beautiful daughter all the way to Afghanistan to marry the World's Most Wanted Terrorist. Bin Laden happily obliged, though the honeymoon options in Afghanistan must've been pretty limited: "The cave on the left, or the one on the right, dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

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