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With bin Laden out of reach, the CIA launched a secret program to harass his network. Using its own informants plus the counterterrorism center's computers, which tracks passports worldwide, the CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local security service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases, the CIA didn't know "exactly what each person was doing," says an intelligence official, "just that he was doing something with a terror organization, so we should disrupt...
...Nairobi embassy. He was Mustafa Mahmoud Said Ahmed, an Egyptian, who warned that unnamed terrorists planned to car bomb the compound. Ahmed had details about the planned attack--details that would end up being eerily similar to what happened in the bombing nine months later. (He is under arrest in Dar es Salaam, accused in the Tanzania embassy blast...
Harvard University Police places three juveniles under arrest at 12:55 a.m., charging them with breaking and entering...
Take Laurent Kabila, dictator of the Congo. He is suspected of involvement in the disappearance of tens of thousands of innocents--far more than the worst of what Pinochet is charged with. His fate? While Pinochet was under house arrest in London, Kabila was in Paris, a guest at a Franco-African summit...
Amid this moral chaos, the arrest of Pinochet is a triumph of arbitrariness. Well, no. There is one rule that emerges from this case. The moralists, so jubilant at Pinochet's comeuppance, might ponder its perversity: rulers with blood on their hands are advised to remain in power. For any tyrant, the best protection from the kind of justice being visited upon Pinochet is to continue to tyrannize...