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...amount of "noise" counterterrorism sources are hearing from intercepted communications among terrorist groups has grown to levels last reached in the summer of 2001. Public pronouncements by al-Qaeda leaders--such as the Web statement purportedly made by bin Laden, a separate bin Laden audiotape played on the Qatari TV channel al Jazeera and another ostensibly from his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri (U.S. authorities believe that the voice on the tape was indeed al-Zawahiri's)--have added to the tension. A senior State Department official believes that the messages by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri may amount...
Still, a few phones and some computer files are not sufficient to stop a ruthless enemy whose reputation among its supporters soared after the destruction of the World Trade Center. With such a display of power, whether bin Laden is alive or not is beside the point. "For the militant groups in the Islamic world, it is the ideology that counts, not a specific leader," says Hala Mustafa of the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "The roots of fanaticism will still be there...
...intelligence sources told TIME that in several meetings with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri since early September, Administration officials have informed her that the U.S. had evidence that al-Qaeda had established a major presence in Indonesia. They pressed her to arrest Islamic militants they believed were linked to Osama bin Laden's network, including Abubakar Ba'asyir, the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, a radical Islamic group suspected of terrorist attacks across the region. Two days before the bombings, U.S. Ambassador Ralph Boyce told Megawati that if she did not begin cracking down, the U.S. would close its embassy...
...only recently became free after 50 years of dictatorship. Indonesians are leery about giving too much authority to the police." Whatever the causes, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on al-Qaeda at St. Andrews University in Scotland, Indonesia is "the only place in the world" where radicals linked to bin Laden "aren't being hunted down...
...midterm congressional elections alone cannot explain the intensity of the zingers being fired across party lines [NATION, Oct. 7]. Frustration is also a factor. Osama bin Laden is nowhere to be found, the anthrax letters remain a mystery, the Dow Jones average sags below 8000, and no one understands how to react to the color-coded terror alerts. Now we're told there is an urgent need to take military action against Iraq and that anyone who questions this is un-American. Frustrating? You bet! SCOTT KOEHNK Key Biscayne...