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...will have to explain how the $10 billion-a-year anti-terror system failed, and how they can ensure it won't fail again. The answer is not a lack of effort. In 1995 Bill Clinton signed a top-secret order authorizing the CIA to run covert operations against bin Laden. Since then his every word has been analyzed, his international network has been diagrammed by computers, his movements have been tracked in hopes--all vain so far--of capturing...
Members of bin Laden's al-Qaeda network keep electronic communications (which the U.S. is famously good at intercepting) to a minimum. They are encrypting more, and when they do use cell phones, it is often in an attempt to smoke out surveillance. "They say things on their phones, then watch us react," says a U.S. intelligence official. The decentralized design of bin Laden's network also makes it much harder to penetrate than previous terrorist groups. Many of the countries in which it operates have less than adequate police and intelligence services to provide assistance. It is imbued with...
...feel sufficient. Theologically, some Middle Eastern sheiks justify suicide bombings on the basis of Muslim medieval traditions, although most of their colleagues worldwide disagree. Politically, campaigns against Muslims in Bosnia, Albania, Chechnya and Israel create a nationalist desperation that can draw even secularists to pan-Islamic dreamer-schemers like bin Laden, especially when they can offer a checkbook and organizational savvy. Then there is globalization. When Islam stopped gaining territory in the Middle Ages, its thinkers developed mechanisms for coexisting with a permanent Western other. But to new theorists like bin Laden, globalization represents the end of that detente...
...attack on the U.S. was very bad. It killed innocent people, ordinary citizens," Zalmai Khan, a housepainter, said sadly. "Why must so many people die?" another man cried. "It doesn't matter who they are; they all have a mother and a father." Many said they believe that Osama bin Laden, whom the Taliban treats as an honored guest, is a liability and should be expelled from Afghanistan. But the Taliban has little intention of giving up bin Laden. "He was a friend in a time of need. It would be very much cowardly to leave him at this stage...
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