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...against terrorism - as in any other war - putting the enemy on trial is always an afterthought. That's why the conviction in New York of four footsoldiers of Osama bin Laden's jihad to drive the United States out of the Middle East will be recorded as, at best, a footnote in the chronicle of a long and bloody war in which the real measure of U.S. success is tragedies averted rather than perpetrators apprehended. After all, the man named in the indictment as the architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania wasn't even...
...Bin Laden remains holed up in Afghanistan under the protection of its ruling Taliban militia, which praised him Wednesday as a hero of Afghanistan's fight against the Soviet invasion and reiterated that it has no intention of handing him over for trial. And some of the Taliban's recent outrages against Buddhists - blowing up their statues, forcing them to wear yellow patches on their clothing - served as a reminder that bin Laden's hosts are singularly impervious to foreign pressure...
Last October's bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden that killed 17 U.S. Navy personnel was a reminder that bin Laden's networks are far from inactive. And the anti-American rage inflamed throughout the Arab world by the Palestinian intifada suggests his pool of potential recruits will grow no matter how harsh the punishment meted out by a New York jury to the four men convicted of the East Africa embassy bombings...
...Bin Laden's evasion of justice may be frustrating for the loved ones of his victims and the American public at large, but U.S. security and intelligence services have managed to foil a number of subsequent plots linked with the Saudi financier through patient intelligence gathering and cooperation with law enforcement agencies in foreign countries. Plans to wreak mayhem in Seattle and in Jordan at the dawn of the Millennium were thwarted by good police work, and there have, no doubt, been other successes that those in charge of the nation's security have chosen to keep secret...
...American embassy roof in Saigon) by saying that, what with Vietnam and nuclear weapons, "the suspicion grows that battle has already abolished itself." It is pretty to think so. What we have left, in any case, is chronic but localized messes--and terrorism of the McVeigh or bin Laden variety...