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Still, there were federal officials more inclined to suspect a homegrown freelance terrorist than a sophisticated network that had already displayed a taste for mass mayhem. They are analyzing the letters carefully; some veteran agents are convinced they were written by an American. "It's starting to fit in more with the loner who has a Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend...
...have been asking themselves that same question: Should they do what American law enforcers have been trained to do--work methodically to build airtight cases against the perpetrators of crimes--or shift their efforts instead to preventing future terrorist plots? It is a difficult question--quickly snaring a suspect means you can't watch him conspire and may not uncover all his confederates--but any debate over it within federal law-enforcement agencies ended Thursday. That evening the President told a prime-time TV audience that "the FBI must think differently." Attorney General John Ashcroft told ABC that...
AFGHANISTAN The Taliban Pay the Price Almost a month after the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S.-led forces launched military strikes on targets in Afghanistan. The raids were aimed at ending the operations of chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaeda network and the Taliban regime sheltering them. The bombing by U.S. aircraft and British and American cruise missiles marked the first stage of what President Bush called a "sustained, comprehensive and relentless" campaign against terrorism. Within days, U.S. military officials said their forces had secured air supremacy over Afghanistan, knocking...
...House Speaker Dennis Hastert sounded a note of alarm when he told reporters there may be reason to suspect the spores from the Daschle letter infiltrated the ventilation system in the lawmakers' office buildings. The House has shut down until October 23rd, and the Senate will close early on Friday so the buildings can be tested...
Although the U.S. government has called for Americans to avoid travel to Indonesia and has urged Americans in Indonesia to leave, I suspect that all Americans and other foreigners here are making their decisions according to their local realities. Last night, in a conversation with my electrician, who is a Muslim from Sumbawa, I heard a story about an American community on that island. There is a U.S.-managed gold mine on Sumbawa that employs several hundred Americans who live there with their families and who supervise a workforce made up of thousands of local people. As soon as this...