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...Bin Laden-related cells have certainly tried to attack major targets inside the U.S. in recent years, and both the previous World Trade Center bombing and the foiled plot to finish the job in 1995 were carried out by groups that could be considered Bin Laden's precursors or fellow travelers. Moreover, U.S. intelligence officials reportedly claim to have more than just circumstantial evidence linking Bin Laden acolytes with Tuesday's attacks...
...officials certainly weren't the only ones making the Bin Laden connection. His Taliban hosts rushed to express their condolences to the U.S. and proclaim their Saudi guest incapable of an attack of such sophistication. But it is precisely the level of training and investment in an operation that required men to simultaneously hijack four planes in different cities and skillfully pilot and navigate them to their targets that makes Bin Laden a prime suspect. The attack appears to have been beyond the known capability of the Palestinian terrorist groups whose supporters took to the streets Tuesday to celebrate...
...Washington's wrath - President Bush emphasized Tuesday that the U.S. will not differentiate between the perpetrators and those that have harbored them. But retaliation remains a complex challenge when terrorists act independently rather than on behalf of any state. Unlike the state-sponsored terrorism of the Cold War era, Bin Laden runs a self-financing "Islamist International" forged among like-minded fighters from throughout the Muslim world who earned their stripes as volunteers in the Afghan 'jihad' against the Soviets and subsequently declared the U.S. as their prime target...
...Hitting back effectively at Bin Laden is far from easy, as the Clinton administration discovered after the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings. That time, the U.S. fired a fusillade of cruise missiles at camps used by Bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan, and destroyed a pharmaceutical factory linked (possibly erroneously) with him in the Sudan. Although the missiles killed a handful of terrorists-in-training - most of them Kashmiri Mulims for 'jihad' against India - they did no discernible damage to Bin Laden's operational capacity. But they did burnish his image as a champion of a global 'jihad' against...