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Osama bin Laden changed all of that, identifying America as the principle foe of Islam and urging his followers to launch attacks against U.S. civilians anywhere. By the time al-Qaeda was established in something like its present shape in the early 1990s, its message was worldwide jihad. Al-Qaeda, says Zachary Abuza of Simmons College in Massachusetts, taught the locally based terrorist groups to "talk together and network." As if to make the point, al-Qaeda's leadership has never been drawn from any one country. Bin Laden is a Saudi; his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is Egyptian. Other...
Once back in their home territories, these terrorists could well launch new attacks on American interests--one reason Tenet has warned that U.S. military installations are at risk not just in obvious places like Pakistan and Afghanistan but also in East Africa, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and beyond. Back home, says Roland Jacquard, a French terrorism analyst, the graduates of the camps "won't be plotting attacks in the heart of America, but they now feel they can attack America in their own backyards." Most terrorist acts in 2002--the bombings of a mosque in Tunisia, of a bus full...
...retraced the route of his mission. "The waves and wind looked hauntingly familiar," he said. "We saw the place where my target had been, then turned out to sea, simulating the path that my disabled plane followed before I parachuted and it crashed." He took a 30-minute launch ride out to the point of impact, as calculated from Japanese historical records, and dropped two small wreaths of flowers into the water. "I watched the current take them away," he said. "It felt right." Then he climbed into the dinghy for a few minutes of solitude, though Secret Service agents...
...Jeans. The fabrics were developed by Nano-Tex, a Greensboro, N.C., company that is 51% owned by Burlington Industries, a textile firm that is struggling to emerge from bankruptcy. Nano-Tex has also developed active-wear fabrics that disperse and dry sweat. Later this year, it will launch a line, destined for socks, underwear and T shirts, that will channel body odors through the structure of the fibers...
...unfettered access to Iraq to check for weapons. Meanwhile, Bush drafted a resolution for Congress to consider before it adjourns Oct. 4. The measure would give Bush U.S. support for an attack regardless of a U.N. mandate. BRITAIN Examiners Fail Bizarre results forced Estelle Morris, the Education Secretary, to launch an investigation into the school leaving exams, known as A levels, taken by more than 400,000 students each year. For the first time, the final A-level grade was based on results of two separate exams taken in 2001 and 2002. Critics alleged examiners marked the second test...