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...elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what America wants from us." Despite a recent rise in Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged in part by a government-sponsored religious campaign, few Iraqis seem to share Osama bin Laden's repugnance for Western culture. Sitting on the lawn of Al Mustansiriyah University, geography student Hamid Lechali, 19, complained that America wants to control Iraq's huge oil reserves. But when the discussion moved away from politics, his 18-year-old girlfriend delightedly declared her favorite actors...
Osama bin Laden wanted to talk to his followers. This time the U.S. government was only too happy to help. Within a day of hearing the scratchy audiocassette of the al-Qaeda leader praising the recent bombings in Bali and the Moscow theater assault, intelligence sources tell TIME, U.S. agents paid a visit to one of bin Laden's senior operatives, Ramzi Binalshibh, held for interrogation at a safe house somewhere overseas. They played the 3-minute tape for Binalshibh, who has begun to spill secrets about al-Qaeda's inner workings since he was picked up last September...
...Laden broke cover at a particularly awkward time for President Bush, raising doubts about the success of phase one of Bush's antiterrorism war just when he's pushing to launch phase two against Saddam Hussein. The news was rushed to him not long after experts at the CIA's bin Laden unit at Langley reviewed the audiocast on al-Jazeera, the network regularly used by al-Qaeda to deliver its messages. At around 8 p.m. that day, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice called Bush with the bad news while he was in the shower. Experts were almost certain they...
...leader back vowing high-level terrorism, Americans are left to wonder why the No. 1 target of the war's original manhunt is still at large. Democrats, pummeled by Bush during the midterm elections for being soft on terrorism, saw a chance for payback. "We can't find bin Laden. We haven't made real progress in finding key elements of al-Qaeda," said soon to be Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. "They continue to be as great a threat today as they were one and a half years ago. So by what measure can we claim to be successful...
...some measures, bin Laden's demise is just as important a symbol of success. And the return of bin Laden could complicate Bush's pursuit of Saddam by creating a conflict between his goals, or at least the appearance of one. Eager to show that Bush has not shifted all his attention to Saddam, Rice pointed out that Bush still "begins his day on the war on terrorism and the threat levels and the threat information we have about the United States. This is the central focus of this Administration." White House officials also leaked word that a high-ranking...