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...year since 9/11, the war against terrorism has also had some clear victories. In Afghanistan itself, says Lieut. Colonel David Gray, director of operations for the 10th Mountain Division, "we have certainly defeated if not destroyed the al-Qaeda network as it existed before the war." Military and intelligence analysts agree that the combined power of Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan has been reduced to not much more than several hundred men, none of them assembled in large groups. Another few hundred al-Qaeda fighters are thought to be across the border in Pakistan...
...where bin Laden has friends among radical Islamists. And though the Afghan training camps of al-Qaeda have been destroyed, perhaps 10,000 graduates of them are distributed in cities throughout the world. Nobody ever said that the war on terrorism would be over soon. But the enemy, says Gray, "is on the run--and we want to keep him on the run." --By Michael Elliott. With reporting by Anthony Davis and Phil Zabriskie/Kabul, Douglas Waller/Washington and Stewart Stogel/United Nations
...poison straight up or down, good vs. bad, dead or alive, you're either with us or you're with the terrorists. That's a great way to frame things when you're launching a war. But when the moment ends and the world goes back to being gray, where does that leave...
...speechless by it. But moral certainty "without trying to nuance," as Bush put it, is a dangerous luxury for a President. If you operate as though Arafat is a terrorist and Israel a victim, you isolate the U.S. from moderate Arab states, who see their region in shades of gray. That could limit your options--and your allies--after you have told everyone that Saddam Hussein can no longer be contained and that you need to take him down. Announcing a crusade marks you as someone who thinks that all other matters are at best secondary...
...victims disagreed. About 300 mostly gray-haired Chinese protested the decision outside a government building in Changde, where they raised banners reading, "Admit the Crime and Compensate!" Meanwhile, a subtle, long-awaited change seems finally to be under way in Japan. After decades of denial, ordinary Japanese are displaying a creeping contrition that is reflected in the courtroom, if not yet by the government. In April, a district court in Fukuoka ordered the Mitsui Mining Co., a subsidiary of one of Japan's biggest conglomerates, to pay $1.4 million apiece to 15 Chinese forced to work in the company...