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President Bush and his administration are doing a great job in the most complex of situations. Hats off to them! Because the U.S. is pitted against such a ragtag lot, it seems ludicrous to describe this conflict as a war. But if the air strikes can rid the world of terrorism or something even worse, we will have a better world for future generations. VIJAY RUNGANADHAN Mumbai, India...
...sense that members of Afghanistan?s Northern Alliance are anti-Taliban, they are friends of the United States. This ragtag group of "freedom fighters" has fought unsuccessfully for five years to unseat the Taliban regime - and many observers hope the U.S.-led strikes against the Taliban will finally allow members of the Northern Alliance to take up active roles in Afghanistan?s government...
...your attitude to Osama bin Laden?" They didn't wait for an answer. One of the two French-speaking North African men detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself instantly and fatally wounding the man they had journeyed across the globe to meet: Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the ragtag Northern Alliance that is fighting a civil war against the ruling Taliban militia. Immediately, the finger of suspicion pointed to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist sheltered by the Taliban. But two days later the explosion in the country's Amu Darya valley was drowned out by the terror attacks...
...same fatal way that dictators beget revolutions that beget more dictators. If the demonstrators are to succeed, they would do best to adopt the non-violent methods of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. But there is, as yet, no one leader or organization capable of disciplining the ragtag, centrifugal anti-globalist demonstrators to nonviolence; and there is no coherent agenda. It's hard to predict what will happen, except that institutions like the World Bank, the WTO and the G-8 will change their travel plans and way of doing business: Smaller, more private meetings in secure...
...Timber Industries Association, representing powerful logging interests like Boise Cascade, which hopes to derail the monument. "We'd just like to narrow the area to the significant features that warrant monument designation," says Hill. Contrasting sharply with both the big-money forestry firms and the well-organized Greens, a ragtag crew of ranchers show up to forecast in plain terms how the monument will destroy their way of life. "This is devastating," says cattleman Mike Dauenhauer, who owns a 12,000-acre spread but wants his cows to continue their subsidized grazing on public lands. Also balking, albeit...