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...could have history and mythology come together in our very own lifetime. Rattan Mann Oslo Disturbing Revelations Hurricane Katrina has shown the world America's Achilles' heel: its inability to deliver a quick and coordinated response to a natural disaster [Sept. 12]. Could the U.S. cope effectively with a terrorist attack involving biological or nuclear weapons? More than ever, the U.S. needs big thinking on a big scale. Philippe P. Weber Bény-Bocage, France Your reporting on Katrina has shown the world the ugly and the dark side of the U.S., the side in which the color...
...address, De Vries insisted on the importance of sharing information among collaboration nations like the E.U. Such collaboration, he says can help strengthen local border controls to keep terrorist cells from taking root. Since accepting his present position in March 2004, De Vries said, he has also tried to get the E.U. nations to collaborate on statistical analysis and to work toward greater judicial consistency through common arrest warrants. He cited the capture of a London bombing suspect in Italy as evidence of success in the latter program...
...Vries set up a distinction between between long-term and short-term solutions. While infusing democracy into a cultural fabric—a long-range project—will produce lasting result, he said, the introduction of basic freedoms into traditionally terrorist regions will suppress the threat in the shorter term...
...rebels. Whether previously you saw them as mad bombers or brave martyrs, it becomes plain that the Tigers also have other identities: bureaucrats, firemen, nurses, farmers, restaurateurs and video store entrepreneurs. There are those who resist this complication. They say it humanizes evil and that if someone is a terrorist or supports terrorism, that's all you need to know. Such certainty may be appealing in a post-9/11 world. Then again, few people would prefer a suicide bomber over an officious border guard. And when a rebel becomes a teacher - when a sword turns into a plough-share...
...those acquitted was Gasoub al Abrash Ghalyoun, for whom the prosecution HAD also demanded 74,000 years. The court found that there was insufficient proof that his video films of the WTC and other prominent U.S. buildings were acts of surveillance in a terrorist plot. Taysir Alony, the al-Jazeera journalist who interviewed Osama Bin Laden shortly after 9/11, was found guilty of membership of a terrorist organization and sentenced to seven years instead of the nine demanded by the prosecutor...