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...Osama bin Laden or his second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were alive and in hiding, wouldn't they be making videotaped statements that refer to recent events for broadcast on the Arab TV station al-Jazeera? The audiotapes and obviously old videotapes that have been released are unimpressive. PASQUALE J. PIACENTE Newington, Conn...
...only Democrat left standing in North Carolina," says a fund raiser who has considered backing Edwards in 2004. Edwards' Senate peer, Kerry, has fewer problems. He coasted to victory on Tuesday, and his criticism of last year's Tora Bora battle in Afghanistan, which failed to capture Osama bin Laden, and his credentials as a Vietnam War hero give him an edge. Kerry is a ferocious campaigner, and his wife Teresa Heinz is the widow of the late Senate Republican and Heinz ketchup heir John Heinz, giving Kerry access to a considerable campaign war chest...
...should come as no surprise that bin Laden survives, since we had no reason other than his radio silence to believe otherwise. Nor should it be particularly surprising that his movement is alive, since it is a diffuse network of networks loosely tied by a broad set of beliefs and hatreds, preying on real and widely-held grievances throughout the Arab and Muslim world...
...rather than only swatting the mosquitoes. Plenty of mosquitoes have been swatted, of course. But there are plenty more buzzing around, waiting to pick their targets. More importantly, perhaps, the swamp is looking nastier than ever. Hostility to the U.S. is more widespread and more intense than ever in bin Laden's traditional recruiting grounds, fueled by Washington's moves against Iraq and ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence - it's hardly any coincidence that he makes those two issues the key talking points of his latest propaganda offering (adding an appeal to Indonesian nationalist sentiment on East Timor as a reminder...
...Beating terrorism is not about a man, and never was. If bin Laden were spotted by a Predator drone tomorrow and vaporized by a Hellfire missile, his supporters would suffer a blow to their morale. Then again, they appear to have managed fine over the past year without hearing a word from their leader, and his elimination would give the FBI little reason to diminish its threat assessment. Still, the fact that bin Laden remains not only alive, but sufficiently emboldened to open a new season of propaganda diatribes on al-Jazeera is a reminder of how much remains...