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...huge stocks of anthrax and nuclear weapons-in-the-making, and would quickly learn to be more like Tony Blair. Bush would also be pointing to a democratic Afghanistan emerging from the ashes of Taliban misrule, and the first rays of Iraqi freedom beaming into the dark corners of Arab autocracy and extremism, illuminating the steady progress of the Israelis and Palestinians along his "roadmap" to peace. And all of this would serve as a chilling deterrent to the nastier ambitions of his other designated "evildoers," North Korea and Iran. Not only that, these epic gains would have been achieved...
...Qaeda, meanwhile, has suffered a number of casualties in its upper echelons, and a number of its cells and operations have been disrupted through cooperation between U.S. and European, Arab and Asian intelligence services. But Bin Laden's network has also evolved its structures and tactics and successfully adapted to the new reality, decentralizing its already diffuse networks and making them even more difficult to penetrate. The U.S. and its allies will likely continue to pick off key operatives, as in last week's rollup of the most al-Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian known as Hambali. They...
...Monday broadcast an audio tape from an al-Qaeda leader urging supporters to make their way to Iraq to fight the occupation forces, and after that to overthrow the Saudi regime. And U.S. forces have found evidence that a number of radical Islamists from all over the Arab world may have already heeded such calls. Some fighters captured by U.S. forces in Iraq have carried foreign passports, and a substantial number of volunteer fighters had crossed into Iraq from Jordan and Syria before the war. It was reported last week that large numbers of Saudi Islamists may have recently crossed...
...sisters, Amman is the ideal place to go into exile; the majority of Jordanians worship Saddam, and are likely to give his daughters the full privileges of Arab protection. In downtown Amman, a reporter seeking public reaction to the TV interviews was admonished by a shopkeeper, "We don't talk about our guests with outsiders." The sisters and their nine children are housed in one of the King's guesthouses in the royal enclave of Dabouq but are expected eventually to move to a private home...
...Abdullah, the deal is doubly attractive; it allows him to claim his father's mantle as a Middle East conciliator, and it mollifies the majority of his subjects who saw Abdullah's pro-U.S. stance during the Iraq war as a betrayal of an Arab hero. --By Aparisim Ghosh