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...past two years have been a wild ride for Osama bin Laden and his followers: They've wrought mayhem in America's political and financial capitals; been driven from their Afghan sanctuaries and forced to duck and dive as scores of their top operatives have been arrested or killed; launched new attacks and continued to broadcast propaganda tapes. Most important, they've managed to survive. After all, as Henry Kissinger once observed, the conventional army loses by not winning, but the guerrilla wins by not losing...
...some, the fact that Osama Bin Laden continues to taunt Washington - most recently with a new videotape aired by al-Jazeera on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary - signals that the campaign against al-Qaeda is far from over. But while Bin Laden's capture would certainly bring justice for the many victims of the terror he inspired - and strike a blow at the morale of his followers - his personal fate is now of secondary importance to the outcome of the conflict he launched...
...acting on fire-at-will proclamations of the sort broadcast by al-Jazeera on Wednesday. Al-Qaeda has not simply decentralized its structure, analysts have noted, it has begun to assume the form not simply of an organization but of a growing movement or ideology, among young Muslims embracing bin Laden's idea that the West is at war with Islam and must be confronted with violence...
...Arabia (and eventually everywhere from Morocco to Indonesia), and to eliminate the Jewish state in their midst. Al-Qaeda propaganda regularly proclaims that the U.S. will flee from a head-on fight in Muslim lands, citing the examples of the withdrawals from Beirut in 1985 and Mogadishu in '94. Bin Laden is unlikely to have imagined that the 9/11 attacks would force the U.S. to immediately quit Saudi Arabia or to abandon Israel, but the jihadis operate in a time-frame far more long-term than that of their adversaries - the reason, for example, that the region of western Pakistan...
...Saudi Arabia is the most intolerant and corrupt regime in the world. If not for unlimited oil reserves, it would also be one of the most backwards. Their leadership is threatened by American values. Thus it is no surprize that Saudi Arabia is the Land of Bin Laden. Joel Weller Rehovot, Israel...