Even if we don’t yet know the whole story about last week’s atrocities, we know enough to act, and to act decisively. The truth is that the international community has not created a new world order in which sponsorship of terrorism by states is beyond the pale. Without the things that only states can provide […]

According to an interview in a Paris newspaper, President Mubarak of Egypt, ostensibly our chief Arab ally and ruler of a “moderate Arab state,” is refusing military cooperation with the United States against Osama Bin Laden. Claiming to have seen no evidence that Bin Ladin is responsible for the WTC attack, Mubarak joined a growing […]

George Bush´s commanding and definitive speech before both houses of Congress may have left its mark on history, but for Israelis, it acted as another disheartening sign that its struggle with terrorism will continue on alone. Here, after all, was the President of the United States cataloging obscure terrorist groups from Uzbekestan to Egypt but […]

The most searing images, of course, are of the aftermath–of the immediate survivors of the dead: parents, siblings, spouses, lovers, friends, hoping against hope that somehow those who live in their hearts might have survived in the flesh. They haunted the grim environs of ground zero with photos and handbills, pressing them onto journalists and […]

When Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of terrorism he was sentenced to death by the US courts. At this very moment half of the American Navy is sailing around the world to hunt down Osama Bin-Laden. Unfortunately, with us, nothing has changed. If anything it has gotten worse. Following the vicious murder of Sarit Amrani, […]

Lebanese professor: It is permissible to rejoice over ‘the penetrating of the bastion of American colonialism’; ‘Everyone gloated at the misfortune of the American administration, while its leaders scrambled to find a place to hide’ Images of Palestinian jubilation following the September 11th attacks have attracted the attention of the Arab media. Most writers criticized […]

The Threat Recruiting and indoctrinating converts to their cause. Collecting and laundering funds supporting violent activities Acquiring weapons Receiving military training Directing terrorist attacks against Americans and Middle Eastern targets Intimidating and threating writers and intellectuals The Problem US law enforcement and intelligence agencies are hampered by a wide randge of legal restrictions and they […]

Washington Post columnist William Raspberry asked Sunday, “Why do so many in the Muslim world – not just the terrorists but quite ordinary men and women – consider us their enemy?” He took an answer from one William O. Beeman, a “Middle East expert at Brown University,” Raspberry wrote, “Bin Laden, according to Beeman, is […]

This is not crime. This is war. One of the reasons there are terrorists out there capable and audacious enough to carry out the deadliest attack on the United States in its history is that, while they have declared war on us, we have in the past responded (with the exception of a few useless […]

The most destructive attack on the American mainland since the War of 1812, when British forces torched the White House, has exploded the myth of American invulnerability to terror. A sizeable force of twenty terrorists, supported by dozens more and what was surely a huge financial and operational infrastructure, managed to elude America’s massive security […]