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...blow up New York landmarks in 1993. Young Ahmed and his brother Mohammed, 29, still on the run, were sent to Afghanistan in 1988 as teen recruits in the Islamic holy war. Some U.S. officials think Ahmed could spill a trove of useful information, since he spent years at bin Laden's side. But so far, Ahmed has refused to cooperate with his captors, and U.S. officials say they have not yet had access to question...
AFGHANISTAN Fighters and Leaders Look to the Future The military assault on the Taliban moved into a decisive phase as the U.S. stepped up air attacks and deployed around 1,000 ground troops to close in on Kandahar and the underground bunkers possibly sheltering al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. As U.S. Marines went into combat for the first time and a Russian Emergencies Ministry team flew into the capital, the cia confirmed that one of its agents was among those killed during a three-day revolt by Taliban prisoners at a compound near Mazar-i-Sharif. Human-rights groups...
Today, the “unthinkable” has eliminated our confidence in the safety of the daily routines of our lives. While a normal reaction to this “unthinkable,” our loss of confidence in air travel is no doubt what Osama bin Laden had in store for us. His attacks were designed to undermine our confidence by doing the unthinkable. While our loss of confidence is intangible, this feeling of insecurity gives bin Laden an upper hand in his assault on Americanism...
...bin Laden’s book, we may have lost the upper hand, but then again, his is a book that preaches destruction, revenge and wholesale slaughter. His was an assault that dictated its own ghastly terms, that wrote its own rules of war. In our own book of rules, though, the unthinkable is sometimes unpreventable, apprehension is sometimes inevitable and our loss of confidence in air travel is sometimes normal...
...September took some of these away still rides in the backs of our minds. It probably should. There’s nothing abnormal about feeling apprehensive, nothing abnormal about the inability to prevent the unthinkable, and nothing abnormal about America’s loss of confidence in her skyways. Bin Laden’s assault may have written its own rules of gaining the upper hand in war, but our reaction to it should not, even in an attempt to ignore his attempt to assault the American spirit, rewrite the rules of what is normal...