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...going, but its members were keenly aware of where they stood at every important moment along the way. Lewis and Clark looked around, not just ahead--at prairie dogs in their burrows, at herds of buffalo massing in grassy valleys, at lights in the sky and seedlings in the soil...
Even if U.S. spooks get a bead on bin Laden inside Pakistan, the options for finishing the job have become riskier. American commandos don't have the local knowledge to work effectively in Pakistan's tribal areas, and any U.S. military hit on Pakistani soil could inflame the country's restive population. Though a few U.S. intelligence agents are said to be in the tribal areas, a covert operation would require Pakistani permission, which President Pervez Musharraf is loath to offer. Pakistan has sent troops and helicopters into the tribal areas to help find bin Laden...
...Laden "never interpreted Islam to assist a given political goal. Islam is his political goal." This idea implies that bin Laden's attempts to undermine secular governments and establish Islamic religious law are not political in nature. While his stated goals include the ouster of U.S. troops from Arab soil and the destruction of Israel, bin Laden uses terrorist means to push his political agenda into areas where people have been disenfranchised by the failure of Islamic governments. Bin Laden employs terrorism to achieve his political aims because Islamic states do not allow change from within. DONALD CREASBAUM Hammond...
...publisher, "Based on hundreds of interviews with officials in the White House and throughout the Administration, Woodward's account will provide the first in-depth behind-the-scenes story of the new, untested President and his advisors as they respond to the worst acts of terror on American soil in history, fight an entirely unprecedented war, and battle a faltering economy...
...taught how to kill his countrymen?) but not necessarily integrated into the organization he was desperate to join. The fact that the authorities arrested Padilla immediately on his arrival in Chicago rather than following him around in the hope that he would reveal al-Qaeda operatives already on U.S. soil says volumes about how little may have known about the organization...