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...then noted, “To preserve civil liberties, the President had to adopt a strategy of disrupting terrorist networks abroad, where they do much of their planning, recruiting, and training. He had to adopt a strategy of initiative and offense…The President decided that, in dealing with the terrorists, he either had to change the way we live, or change the way they live...
...found him, hiding out in a bunker equipped with a bed, heating and not much else. During the conflict with Russia, an increasingly isolated Maskhadov had seen many of his closest allies either die or give up. He occasionally met with radical guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev, the man behind terrorist atrocities like the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 and the Beslan school massacre last September. But Maskhadov rejected Basayev's terror tactics, and Basayev despised Maskhadov's calls for peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat...
...single day, Feb. 15, 2003, when hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have filled the streets of London to protest the impending war in Iraq. Henry Perowne, the central character, is a prosperous and contented neurosurgeon. But his happiness is infringed by a persistent, low-intensity fear of a terrorist attack. The pros and cons of the Iraq invasion are among McEwan's concerns here; the son of a career officer in the British army, he says he was more opposed to the war than Perowne. "But I gave him my ambivalence about...
...WEEKS AFTER intelligence officials confirmed that Osama bin Laden had sent a message to Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, urging him to plan attacks on U.S. soil, details are emerging from one of al-Zarqawi's lieutenants about what the man behind many of the terrorist attacks in Iraq could have in mind. Intelligence officials tell TIME that interrogation of a member of al-Zarqawi's organization, who was taken into U.S. custody last year and has been described as a top aide, indicates that al-Zarqawi has given ample consideration to assaults on the American homeland. According...
...bulletin also notes the Iraq-based master terrorist's apparent belief that "if an individual has enough money, he can bribe his way into the U.S.," specifically by obtaining a "visa to Honduras" and then traveling across Mexico and the southern U.S. border. Al-Zarqawi's aide also revealed that his boss, after pondering the absence of attacks in the U.S. in recent years, concluded that a lack of "willing martyrs" was to blame. Al-Zarqawi believes, according to his lieutenant, that "if an individual is willing to die, there was nothing that could be done to stop him," even...