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...reemerged on the terrorist scene. In Bali, a powerful bomb killed 181 people, mostly foreigners; both President Bush and the Indonesian government have tied the blast to al Qaeda. In Kuwait, two men shot two American soldiers, killing one; the leader of the attack professed his allegiance to Osama bin Laden in a videotape. In Yemen, a French oil tanker was apparently rammed by a smaller craft packed with explosives in an attack reminiscent of the U.S.S. Cole incident two years ago. President Bush has said these incidents prove the need for a global coalition against terrorism...
...failure to capture bin Laden and second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri was not enough to demonstrate that Bush’s war on terror has faltered, this string of attacks shows without doubt that al Qaeda remains capable of carrying out small- and large-scale terrorist operations. In a way, this is unsurprising; it would have been impossible to completely destroy al Qaeda’s capabilities immediately. The war on terror will be long, and it will be painful; there will be both setbacks and progress. But it is not too much to expect that it would receive...
...dangerous as al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. They attacked American embassies in Africa, killing 224 people. They attacked the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 American sailors. They hijacked four jet planes and crashed three into buildings, killing over three thousand people. Even Saddam Hussein cannot claim such grisly results against America...
Without a doubt, this past weekend’s terrorist bombing in Indonesia reveals the continued threat posed by al Qaeda cells, especially in Southeast Asia. The Staff is right to say that the U.S. military should keep aggressively pursuing bin Laden’s network...
...chosen by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to run a special free-trade zone on the Chinese border?was escorted from his Shenyang home by police. Chinese authorities aren't saying why he is being held under "house supervision" or what crimes they think were committed. "Yang Bin and his enterprises in China are suspected of being involved in various illegal activities in China," Zhang Qiyue, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman, said last week without elaboration. Speculation ranges from tax evasion to corruption arising from Yang's cozy ties to provincial officials...