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...There is good reason that Al-Qaeda thrived here when Osama bin Laden set up his terrorist training camps five years ago. It brought money to an area where cooking pots are a major expense. It maintained close ties with local Pashtun tribal leaders. There was relative peace. Now those same villages, scattered over hundreds of square kilometers of lawless and rugged mountains, are providing haven for Al-Qaeda fighters on the run. A commander named Abdul Basir says he caught five wounded Arabs in a place called Seliman Khil three days after they had be routed from their camps...
...wounded soldiers can hide in these villages, so could bin Laden. I spent the past two weeks in Tora Bora living in a family's peanut shed. One morning I saw a B-52 drop a bomb on a village about 6 kilometers away, so I drove there in a pick-up truck to investigate. It occurred to me as I jounced through a dry riverbed that in all my time in Tora Bora I hadn't seen a single car drive in that direction. Barefoot children who heard the engine ran to the doorways to watch blankly...
...Instead, bin Laden divides the world into believers and non-believers, that is, Muslims and infidels. He believes Islam needs to be purified and turned back a thousand years. He has identified himself and his followers as adoring death. He told a Pakistani interviewer after 9/11: "We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the big difference between...
...they may even be getting used to the idea that Osama bin Laden may have slipped the noose - or at least giving up on the idea of Islamic terrorism as a one-man threat. If OBL is captured or killed, only 27 percent would feel "safer," while 65 percent would feel "as safe as currently feel." (A martyrdom-mindful 7 percent would feel "less safe.") And if the U.S. achieves "most of its goals" in Afghanistan but doesn?t get OBL, 50 percent say they would still consider the military action "a victory." (Of course, 46 percent wouldn...
Osama who? U.S. media may have spent the week fretting over the whereabouts of Bin Laden and the fate of John Walker, but concerns abroad are elsewhere. Argentina's economic and political meltdown dominated headlines from London to Manila, much of the world media bracing for some scary global financial fallout. (Not that foreign media were immune to the fate of John Walker - Pakistan's Peshawar-based Frontier Post, whose op-ed pages are more commonly filled with denunciations of America's campaign in Afghanistan, carried a piece by conservative American columnist Anne Coulter expressing the hope that "the government...