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Selected links from the NYTimes on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
WEEK
IN REVIEW
What
Will Rise if bin Laden
Falls?
By
DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
If
Osama bin Laden, who has been Al Qaeda's founder, theoretician,
financier and spokesman, is killed or captured, will the terrorist
organization live on without him?
THE
PROFILE
Bin Laden's Journey From Rich Pious Lad to the Mask of
Evil
By
ROBERT D. McFADDEN
(Sept.
30)
The myths and realities of Osama bin Laden swirl together like the
smoke over the ruins of the World Trade Center. Who is this man?
AL
QAEDA
How bin Laden and Taliban Forged Jihad Ties
By DOUGLAS FRANTZ and DAVID ROHDE
(Nov.
22) Osama
bin Laden's relationship with the Taliban helped lead the Afghan
religious movement into a more global jihad and, eventually,
doom.
Running
Terrorism as a Business
(Nov. 11)
Signs
of Change in Terror Goals Not Heeded
(Oct. 14)
Islamic
Jihad Seen as bin Laden's Backbone
(Oct.
4)
A
Sprawling Web of
Terrorists-in-Waiting
(Sept.
30)
Holy
Warriors Escalate Old War on New
Front
(Sept.
16)
THE
EVIDENCE
An
Investigation in Egypt Illustrates Al Qaeda's
Web
By
SUSAN SACHS
(Nov.
21) Records
from a 1999 Cairo trial show how the merger of Al Qaeda and Islamic
Jihad vastly enhanced Osama bin Laden's reach and organizational
ability.
Indictment
by Spanish Judge Portrays a Secret Terror
Cell
(Nov.
20)
Britain's
Bill of Particulars
(Oct.
10)
THE
MANUAL
Captured
Terrorist Manual Suggests Hijackers Did a Lot by the
Books
(Oct. 5)
Investigators suspect that some of the hijackers trained in Al Qaeda
camps, and while there is no evidence the hijackers had the handbook,
much of their conduct reflects its lessons.
THE
HEIR APPARENT
Egyptian
Raised Terror Funds in U.S. in 1990's
By SUSAN SACHS and JOHN KIFNER
(Oct.
23) In
1995, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri slipped into the United States and
collected thousands of dollars from people who were told that their
donations would go to Afghan refugees.
Egyptian
Doctor Believed to Be bin Laden's No.
2
(Sept.
24)
THE
RELIGION
Bin
Laden Adheres to Austere Form of
Islam
By
NEIL MacFARQUHAR
(Oct. 7) The
faith that drives Osama bin Laden and his followers is a particularly
conservative brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, which was
instrumental in creating the Saudi monarchy.
THE
CONVICTIONS
4
Guilty in Terror Bombings of 2 U.S. Embassies in
Africa
By BENJAMIN WEISER
(May 30) Four men were
convicted of conspiring with Osama bin Laden in a 1998 terrorist plot
to bomb the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
THE DOUBLE
AGENT
A
Soldier's Shadowy Trail in U.S. and in the
Mideast
By BENJAMIN WEISER and JAMES RISEN
Ali A. Mohamed was an Egyptian intelligence officer, a spy for the
C.I.A., a member of an elite American Army unit, a witness for the
F.B.I., and a close associate to Osama bin Laden.
Dissecting
a Terror Plot From Boston to Amman
By JUDITH MILLER
Jordanian and American officials say a thwarted terrorist attack in
Jordan in late 1999 is a case study of how Osama bin Laden and his
deputies, isolated in Afghanistan, have extended their reach.
Killing
for the Glory of God, in a Land Far From Home
By JUDITH MILLER
If the international terrorism that has haunted Americans for the
last decade has a home, it is Afghanistan, the place that comes
closest to the extremists' ideal of a state ruled by the strict code
of Islamic law.