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President Bush's plan to attack Iraq is a shrewd political maneuver designed to change the target of the war on terrorism from the cunning, elusive and charismatic bin Laden to the oppressive, lackluster and immobile Saddam. This new focus provides a cover for our failure to catch the real terrorist leaders. JOEL RETT Olympia, Wash...
...attack on Iraq would only validate Osama bin Laden's dangerous extremism and further destabilize the Middle East. HAROON MOGHUL Somers, Conn...
Your article on how President Bush is making his case for an attack on Iraq [Special Report, Sept. 16] highlighted a central danger: "If the last Gulf War helped inspire evil in [Osama] bin Laden, will a new one create many more like him?" Saddam Hussein is no more dangerous now than he was before Sept. 11, 2001. Even a successful effort to change the regime in Iraq would not reduce the number of radical extremists who want to see a weakened America. Though the world surely would be a better place without a madman like Saddam...
...dossier of infractions by Saddam Hussein--a dossier that made no mention of the Iraqi leader's links to al-Qaeda--both National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were cranking up new accusations of links between Saddam and the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. That night, as the Daschle explosion ruled the evening news, Rice appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and said "high-ranking detainees" had told the U.S. that Iraq "provided some training to al-Qaeda in chemical-weapons development." Then she added, "We don't want to push this...
...book, The Secret Archives of Al-Qaeda, French terror expert Roland Jacquard says bin Laden lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri made clandestine visits to Europe in 1996-97 to help the SGPC and other groups organize al-Qaeda-associated cells and prepare attacks. Jacquard believes additional cells have been set up as jihadists fled post-Taliban Afghanistan for Europe, where some are citizens or legal residents. Funds raised by the new cells are either funneled directly into network activity or collected from around Europe by couriers for pooling and redistributing from London - which investigators call the headquarters for Islamist terrorism...