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Like most al-Qaeda terrorists, brigade members are fervently committed to bin Laden's cause, and will literally fight to the death. "They give no quarter, and they expect no quarter," says an official at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. At the moment, they're helping out at key strategic northern cities like Mazar-i-Sharif, Taloqan and Jalalabad --and, not surprisingly, becoming a major target of U.S. firepower...
Some delegates blamed Osama bin Laden for Afghanistan's troubles; some still considered him a hero of the anti-Soviet jihad. Most of the bearded men in artfully folded turbans came from the same moderate, nationalist, royalist ranks. It is unlikely that many chieftains from inside Afghanistan braved Taliban wrath to come. Nowhere sat a member of the Northern Alliance. Nor did a single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send...
...those newly drafted civil soldiers returned to work, investigators raced to protect them from more enemies they can't see. Late last week a fragile consensus was emerging among intelligence sources that the culprit is likely a lone scientist in our midst, someone who has no connection to Osama bin Laden--except for a shared talent for terrifying Americans...
...talk in the makeshift antiterrorist war room he has opened in his Washington headquarters. Only a tiny fraction of the food coming into the U.S. undergoes inspection, officials note. One concern: imported gum arabic plants, the source of additives for many foodstuffs. These come largely from Sudan, once bin Laden's lair, via Canada, and because of the North American Free Trade Agreement may enter the U.S. uninspected. "Am I satisfied with the inspections we're doing?" Thompson asked rhetorically. "No, I am more fearful about this than anything else...
...Weapons of mass destruction" is a bland euphemism. These are weapons of genocide. And Osama bin Laden has openly declared his readiness to use them on the infidel. The enemy has declared total war. Yet we eschew all but limited war. The asymmetry is potentially suicidal...