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...This is a gift to Osama bin Laden,” said MIT professor Stephen Van Evera, who joined in signing the Times advertisement...
...Bin Laden’s strategy was, I believe, to provoke us into a war in the Middle East so he could mobilize the Islamic world,” he said...
...Bin Laden is an Islamic extremist and Saddam Hussein is a secular dictator—they don’t have a lot in common, their agendas are not very similar, and there’s no reason why you’d expect them to back each other,” he said. “I worry that [the U.S.] would be unwittingly giving them a reason to collaborate...
...congressional elections, from the wave of scandals that have rocked corporate America, the Republican agenda and Bush’s popularity. It’s a diversion from the reality that the war on terrorism, while scoring plentiful victories against Afghan villagers and the Constitution, has left Osama bin Laden and his network largely unscathed. Perhaps the biggest reward of all will be the expansion of U.S. dominance over the Arab world and the precious oil that Cheney needs to keep his heart pumping...
...Among the people of Tirin Kot, there is a binding dedication to Islam but not to the specific brand preached by the Taliban and especially not to the extreme forms of punishment the group meted out in the name of Islam. And they distance themselves from any ties to bin Laden's al-Qaeda. "People who joined the Taliban had no idea what the leadership was doing," says Timoor Shah, an elderly teacher of religious studies in Tanali. "But now all Taliban stand accused of these crimes...