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...notched a quick victory in Iraq, deposing a regime the Administration had linked to extremist Islamic terrorists. The much feared retaliatory strikes didn't take place, and no attacks had hit the U.S. after Sept. 11, 2001. Several key leaders of al-Qaeda, the network headed by Osama bin Laden that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, had been arrested. Just days before the bombings in Riyadh, President Bush stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln to bask in his Iraq triumph and declared, "The war on terror is not over, yet it is not endless...
...Riyadh, American officials say, bore all the hallmarks of the organization. A source tells TIME that a full nine months ago, U.S. intelligence picked up signs of an intense debate within an al-Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia over whether to stage a major operation inside the kingdom. Bin Laden himself may have contributed, at least from afar, to the debate. In an audiotape sent to the Arab TV network al-Jazeera in February, a man claiming to be bin Laden called on "honest Muslims" to "liberate themselves from those unjust and renegade regimes that are enslaved by the United...
...OVER Brutal bombings in Saudi Arabia remind the world that despite America's victory in Iraq, this is no time to get complacent. Should we brace ourselves for "100 bin Ladens...
...recently learned that Harvard Divinity School accepted money from the President of the United Arab Emirates, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, for the creation of an endowed professorship in Islamic Religious Studies. As a student of Islam, I was pleased that the Divinity School sought to expand its scholarship of religious studies to Islam. However, upon detailed research I discovered that the man donating the money, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, was involved in egregious acts that I could not condone and toward which I could not remain indifferent...
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the No. 3 leader of al-Qaeda, who was captured in Pakistan on March 1, has been questioned extensively about his relationship with Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers. But his U.S. interrogators have also grilled him about another figure of much concern to Washington: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the maverick Pakistani scientist who has been called the father of the Islamic Bomb. U.S. intelligence, according to one official, has information that the al-Qaeda man and the nuclear scientist had connections with the same safe-house operator and may have crossed paths. They were "reported...