Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...vexing as the explanations for the Cole disaster sound, the search for the culprits behind the suicide bombing could produce still more frustration. A team of counterterrorism experts, including 100 FBI investigators, accompanied by a protective force of U.S. Marines and diplomatic security agents, flew to the scene last week, setting up shop on three floors of Aden's Hotel Movenpick. Investigators believe an established organization was behind the attack, since suicide bombers are well trained and subjected to extensive psychological preparation before setting out on their missions. Pulling off an attack of last week's magnitude required considerable bombmaking...
...investigation may be bedeviled by uncooperative Yemeni authorities. After the Khobar Towers bombing, Saudi police allowed FBI agents neither to examine the physical evidence nor to apprehend suspects, making retaliation against Iran, which Administration officials believe ordered the attack, politically impossible. The signs from the Yemeni government last week were not encouraging. President Ali Abdullah Saleh not only refused to acknowledge that the Cole bombing, and a Thursday-night grenade attack on the British embassy in San'a, might be the work of terrorists; he went so far as to declare, "Yemen does not have any terrorist elements...
Even if the U.S. succeeds in finding and punishing those responsible for last week's tragedy, the superpower's struggle against terrorism is only bound to widen. The escalating conflict in Israel, while perhaps not directly linked to the Cole bombing, has emboldened Islamic extremists and hardened resentment toward the U.S. "What the violence in Israel did," says an Administration official, "is to accelerate plans...among these groups...
...centuries-old ethnic strife roiling in the Balkans was being joyously transformed by the miraculous power of democracy. The gunpoint tension on the Korean peninsula was being dissipated by the democratic reformer Kim Dae Jung in the south, who last week won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his unlikely partner in the north, Kim Jong Il. And the unholy struggle in the Middle East looked, for a few moments at least, as if it was being narrowed mainly to semantic nuances about control and sovereignty over a mere 35-acre mount of land in Jerusalem...
There were ripples as well for America's tight presidential race. Suddenly the stakes were higher than mangled syllables and exaggerated anecdotes. With the reminder that the world was indeed still a very dangerous place, did George Bush's passing performance on foreign policy in last week's debate now seem adequate enough? Does his reassuring team of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell trump Al Gore's expertise? How do we feel about Gore's rather expansive vision of national interests and the value of nation building now that the threats suddenly seem more vivid...