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...Qaeda in America I was disappointed to see that TIME gave so much coverage to al-Qaeda's latest "threat" to the U.S. [Aug. 16]. It seems as though every time the government hiccups, the media jump in to play on America's paranoia about another terrorist strike. So the government is telling us that al-Qaeda is going to attack, just like on the Fourth of July and this past New Year's and all last year and the year before that? I'm not holding my breath. Allan Weir Nashville...
...Islam pesantren in Tenggulun, on the island of Java?gaunt, bearded and with deep-set black eyes blazing?is warning visitors to his Islamic boarding school that it is fortunate they come in peace. If not, he says, non-Muslims "would be lucky to get out alive." Asked about terrorist attacks by Muslims, Zakaria grows more agitated, raising his voice. "The unbelievers accuse us Muslims of being terrorists because they don't have the guts just to say they are waging war against Islam." Of those convicted for their parts in the 2002 bombings in Bali that left 202 dead...
...evidence suggests otherwise. Back in 1999, when the Texas Governor was still just a primary candidate, his world view was plain to see. "Let me be clear," he said. "Our first line of defense is a simple message: Every group or nation must know, if they sponsor such [terrorist] attacks, our response will be devastating." Asked by TIME just after the election how he would respond to a challenge from Saddam, Bush replied, "I've learned one thing--I'd jump on him. If we launched strikes and they're halfway to the targets, we wouldn't turn them back...
Most important, the sanctions "containing" Saddam were collapsing. That would have produced the ultimate nightmare: a re-energized and relegitimized regime headed by Saddam--and ultimately, even worse, his sons--increasingly Islamicizing its Baathist ideology, rearming and renewing WMD programs, and extending its connections with terrorist groups. The threat was not imminent. But it was ominous and absolutely inevitable. Bush, correctly, thought it necessary to remove it. It was obvious to all that this second war would jeopardize his presidency. He risked his entire political future for it nonetheless...
MILESTONES: Terrorist charges in New York City; Elisabeth Kubler-Ross dies...