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...After lunch, I travel quickly to Islamabad for a meeting with a food expert, answering her who, what, where, when questions. After the meeting my Afghan colleague and I talk about the earlier phone calls, and again confirm that the voices inside Afghanistan need to play a lead role in helping to resolve the current Afghan crisis. We call them again and make plans to ring again tomorrow...
...make it better? The latest breach doesn?t surprise people like Richard Gritta, an airline industry expert and business professor at the University of Portland. "At this point," says Gritta, "the system is so full of holes you don?t have to be all that clever to get through. You just have to count on the incompetence of the people who are in charge of security, and based on what we?ve seen, that?s a pretty safe...
...public relations exercise is failing where it matters most: in Washington. Alliance spokesman Haron Amin moved there from New York following the Sept. 11 attacks, to lobby for assistance. But other than a meeting three weeks ago with the National Security Council's resident expert on Afghanistan, Zalmy Khalil Zad, he has had almost no access to decision makers in the Bush Administration. "At State we asked for (Deputy Secretary Richard) Armitage, but he was busy," Amin says. "I've asked for (Assistant Secretary for Policy Planning) Richard Haass, but he's been busy, too." He has met some members...
...From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah [of Iran]-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. 'If there's an internal threat to the kingdom,' says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, 'it's from fundamentalists on the right, not liberalizers on the left...
Mustafa Alani, Middle East security expert for the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, is convinced that the U.K. has never played host to a formal al-Qaeda network - a judgment privately shared by the FBI. But London is clearly a center of coordination and direction. It appears well-established that suspected al-Qaeda operatives like Zacarias Moussaoui (detained in New York) and Djamel Beghal (detained in Paris) have imbibed the heady hatred of Sheik Abu Qatada, the Palestinian-born cleric who preaches in London and whose bank account has been frozen after appearing on a U.S. Treasury list...