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Past Issues Taliban Last Days Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Lifting the Veil Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunt for bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- Thanksgiving 2001 Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Inside Al-Qaeda Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- Defender In Chief Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from...
...There's no indication yet that the anthrax attacks came from Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda. Another group, or a freelance copycat, might have done it (that's the thing about attacking the media: there's no lack of motive), although obtaining anthrax is not quite as simple as sticking a needle in a candy bar. And in one sense, it hardly matters. If someone sends you a package of death, it's hardly going to make you feel better that the package didn't carry Osama's return address...
...Maybe the more interesting question is what anyone, bin Laden or otherwise, had to gain from it. If it was someone else piggybacking on al-Qaeda's publicity, they defeated the whole purpose of putting a scare into the media by not identifying themselves or giving their reasons. Given that the raison d'etre of terrorism is to generate attention and useful fear for a cause, any other group is wasting its spores by sending out an unacknowledged attack that Americans are likely to credit to someone else...
...Regardless, the upshot is that it just became that much harder for members of the media to play the nothing-bad-can-ever-happen-to-me game. Osama Bin Laden may have had something or nothing to do with it. But if he thinks these attacks are good news for him, he's not quite as media-savvy as we've made...
Past Issues Taliban Last Days Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Lifting the Veil Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunt for bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- Thanksgiving 2001 Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Inside Al-Qaeda Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- Defender In Chief Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from...