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...prospect of a protracted campaign has made more urgent the waging of the propaganda war in the Arab and Muslim world, and the U.S. last weekend unveiled a new secret weapon - former ambassador to Syria Christopher Ross. Within two hours of Osama bin Laden's latest propaganda tape broadcast on the pan-Arab cable network al-Jezeera, viewers heard a rebuttal from Mr. Ross delivered in fluent Arabic. And with it, the message that Washington plans to challenge Bin Laden in real time for the hearts and minds of the Arab world. The U.S. might have been helped in this...
...understand why the Taliban is so tenacious, consider this: some of its frontline troops are the same sort of men who steered planes into buildings on Sept. 11. The key to the regime's resistance is a shadowy band of Arab holy warriors trained by Osama bin Laden--a fundamentalist foreign legion known as Brigade...
...would like to commend Arab columnist Hazem Saghiyeh for his commentary "It's Not All America's Fault" [VIEWPOINT, Oct. 15]. Saghiyeh wrote that the Arab world has a "certain fixation on the past" and has not established the free press, trade unions and civil society necessary for debating matters related to the common good. Nor have we resolved the question of political legitimacy. We in the Arab world seem unable to fathom the principle that charity starts at home. Unrest is never our fault. It is time for us to realize that we have to fix our own world...
Certainly Europe?s intelligence antennae are tuned to al-Qaeda terror as never before. But as long as its superstructure is in place, the network can change the frequency. Now that European intelligence services have homed in on Arab men as potential terrorists, the organizers could shift to Asian Muslims - Filipinos, Malaysians, Indonesians. Security officials in Europe and Asia profess concerns about al-Qaeda links to the Philippines? Abu Sayyaf group. Philippine officials acknowledge that bin Laden?s brother-in-law Mohamad Jamal Khalifa served as a financial backer for Abu Sayyaf up to 1994. Two months ago the government...
...they could have joined a cell there; young Arab students would not stand out in the city of 1.7 million people, 16% of them foreigners. The Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where at least three of the plotters studied, has 900 foreign students, 20% of the total...