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...Iraq will lose the war," says Musa Keilani, editor in chief of Jordan's Al-Urdon newspaper. But, says Abdullah Schleifer, a professor of TV journalism at the American University in Cairo, al-Jazeera has become "more detached and balanced" since the days after 9/11, when it portrayed Osama bin Laden as a noble Arab champion...
...week in fighting with coalition-backed Kurdish troops. Italian authorities charged two Kurds from northern Iraq, two Tunisians, an Egyptian and a Somali with international terrorism, accusing them of providing false documents, financing and recruiting for Ansar, which is allegedly headed by Abu Mussab Al Zarkqawi, one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants. According to Italian police transcripts obtained by TIME, several of those arrested made apparent references to future attacks in Europe. But in a March 30 conversation intercepted by police, the accused 31-year-old Egyptian told one of the Tunisians that it was time to leave...
...following Operation Enduring Freedom, which has been unable thus far to bring Osama bin Laden to book for September 11, Arabs are treated to prime-time coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As they see it, there are too many operations and not enough freedom. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak predicted this week that the war could produce not simply another Bin Laden...
Then, in November 2001, as alliance soldiers combed through al-Qaeda safe houses in Afghanistan, documents and computer records revealed that Osama bin Laden's network had been trying to acquire WMDs. Administration officials didn't have to work hard to identify a possible supplier. "Iraq," says a White House official, "was the easiest place they could get them from." Says a former senior Administration official: "The eureka moment was that realization by the President that were a WMD to fall into [terrorists'] hands, their willingness to use it would be unquestioned. So we must act pre-emptively to ensure...
...explanations as well. As head of a regime of cutthroats, Saddam could not afford to show signs of weakness; the minute he started to negotiate flight, he would open himself to a coup. Still, some experts suggest that Saddam might have entertained the option of going underground like Osama bin Laden so that his shadow would continue to make Iraq quake...