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...fiery young mid-rank clerics who share his views on fighting America and destroying Israel. It was the upshot of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait that ignited their anger. King Fahd's agreement to act as host to U.S. troops, bin Laden charged, revealed the al Sauds' inability to defend the kingdom and its unholy dependence on infidels. Al Saud fundamentalism was not correct enough for bin Laden, who decried the government's corruption and crackdown on dissident clerics. "The core of our disagreement with you," bin Laden wrote Fahd in 1995, "is your abandonment of the duties...
...almost a relief to watch lawmakers who used to loathe one another make common cause in their loathing of John Ashcroft's antiterrorism bill. Did anyone actually mourn the death of bipartisanship? It was a bloodless phantom anyway: all lawmakers love their country and would do anything to defend it, and that includes doing their jobs, which is to disagree over how best to do this. Scholars argue over whether it is their job to try to understand the enemies' motives, or whether the effort reeks of apology and appeasement. New Yorkers argue over whether to rebuild the Twin Towers...
...We’ve accomplished a great deal in one month,” he said. “We are dismantling their military, disrupting their communications, severing their ability to defend themselves. And slowly, but surely, we’re smoking al Qaeda out of their caves so we can bring them to justice.” But Bush indicated that the military operation may only be in its early stages...
...It’s very difficult for a keeper to defend a one-on-one like that,” Gannon said...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon, “You cannot defend at every place, at every time, against every conceivable, imaginable—even unimaginable—terrorist attack...