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...Laden has, rightly or wrongly, come to symbolize America's continued vulnerability to terror attacks - simply by his ability to remain alive despite the efforts of the world's most powerful military and intelligence services, assisted by the security services of most of the European, Arab and Asian worlds, to eliminate him. The fact that bin Laden is alive underscores not only a sense of the limits of U.S. achievements in Afghanistan - achievements in danger of being reversed, the Pentagon has warned - but also the vitality of his movement. If bin Laden is alive, it can safely be assumed that...
...reason other than his radio silence to believe otherwise. Nor should it be particularly surprising that his movement is alive, since it is a diffuse network of networks loosely tied by a broad set of beliefs and hatreds, preying on real and widely-held grievances throughout the Arab and Muslim world...
...close a relationship with the intelligence agencies, and by being too heavily influenced by governments. UNSCOM was dependent, for its activities, on voluntary contributions of personnel, equipment and intelligence. Former members of UNSCOM have described a number of things that came to discredit them. World opinion, not only Arab opinion but world opinion turned in favor of the Iraqis and against UNSCOM at a time when UNSCOM was trying desperately to find something. This should...
...complying with the UN resolution, Saddam could certainly make life difficult for Washington hawks set on an invasion to achieve regime change in Iraq - and strengthen the hand of those in the U.S., Europe and the Arab world opposed to war. Washington hawks are more than a little anxious at the extent to which the Bush Administration has been yoked to a UN inspection timetable that could, if Saddam avoids overt confrontation, drag matters on into next February, and even then not produce a definitive case for a UN-sanctioned war. The neo-conservative flagship Weekly Standard warns that absent...
...deepest crisis of his career. He has come back from the dead before, of course - a decade ago few U.S. officials would have believed they'd still be appearing on Sunday talk shows discussing Saddam Hussein in 2002. His attempts at diplomatic rapprochement with Saudi Arabia and other moderate Arab states, and recent domestic initiatives such as his mass amnesty for Iraqi prisoners suggest he may be planning to further muddy the waters with more gestures of magnanimity toward his own people and the wider Arab world. But that's a risky business for a man who rules by fear...