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...Islamic culture scholarships bearing the bin Laden name have come under fire following the attacks on the World Trade Center, as Osama bin Laden is the prime suspect...
Within hours of the Sept. 11 tragedy, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime publicly discounted the possibility that Osama bin Laden, a suspect in several previous terrorist actions and its notorious guest, could have masterminded the attacks. With wreckage still smoldering in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, and with the investigation leading straight to the al-Qaeda terrorist network which bin Laden heads from his Afghan headquarters, the Taliban demanded that the United States offer proof of bin Laden’s guilt. Now it appears that the United States is prepared to do precisely that...
...Many analysts suspect the attack on Massoud was a preemptive strike by bin Laden: anticipating retaliation against Afghanistan in the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, he had sought to deprive the U.S. of a powerful prospective ally. (Although Massoud's forces had initially insisted that he was alive in the face of contrary intelligence, on Saturday a spokesman finally confirmed that Massoud had died from wounds suffered in the attack.) A second theory posits that, by presenting the Taliban with the gift of Massoud's head before unleashing the carnage in America, bin Laden had buttressed...
...devastating emotions surrounding the terrorist attacks. “Normally I try to avoid UHS, though I was considering going to UHS or Room 13 because I was deeply affected by the whole thing,” says Andrew P. Ostergaard ‘03. “I suspect a lot of people went, though it’s not something you usually talk about...
...extensive "human intelligence" capability to monitor the wider networks of which they'd been a part. French law-enforcement was also aided by a catch-all crime law: Simply by citing "association with wrong-doers involved in a terrorist enterprise," French police are able to arrest and detain any suspect in any crime whose goal, however remotely, can ultimately assist terrorist activity. That law shocks civil libertarians in the U.S. and Britain, but French officials retort that those countries' commitment to strict civil libertarian principles has made them havens where Islamist militants can plot terror with less risk of detection...