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...backpedal on some of those claims, Friday, conceding that it was based simply on the intensity of the resistance they're encountering on their sweep through a tribal area in the hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives. Still, the head of France's military announced on Monday that Osama bin Laden had more than once in recent weeks narrowly escaped from French troops fighting in a new U.S.-led offensive aimed at snaring the al-Qaeda leader. The U.S. military unit that captured Saddam Hussein has been moved to the Afghan-Pakistan border, and U.S. officials have expressed confidence they...
Highlights from six years of TIME's coverage of al-Qaeda from the 1998 embassy bombings to the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan...
...report on Bush's credibility problems convinced me that Americans don't trust their President anymore. They desperately want a leader who can protect them. I don't know what will happen between now and the November election, but so long as al-Qaeda isn't destroyed and Osama bin Laden isn't dead, the U.S. and the international community won't feel safe. If bin Laden is captured or killed and al-Qaeda and its adherents are vanquished, the earth will be much safer for all of us. If Bush can accomplish those things, Americans may forgive...
...support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Spain might have been targeted anyway, because of its effective police and intelligence campaign that has netted a number of al-Qaeda operatives - or even simply because Andalusia before 1492 was the European foothold of the old Islamic caliphate that bin Laden dreams of reviving. But in the minds of many a Spanish voter, last week's attacks were al-Qaeda making good on bin Laden's vow, last October, to punish those nations that had supported Bush and Blair in Iraq...
...Osama bin Laden is not a cleric, and his movement's policies and strategies have been formulated on a political basis. As former CIA operative Reuel Marc Gerecht noted three years ago, "Bin Laden's vision was designed to appeal to the larger Muslim world. His primary target is the enemy without, the United States, not the enemy within, the 'impious' Muslims. The goal is to unify Muslims, not to divide them by doctrine or even by the intensity of their faith." Gerecht cites passages from key policy documents of al-Qaeda stressing the need for bin Laden's supporters...