... Pakistan Taliban Haqqani Network al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden NATO United States Tribal Areas Balochistan Jamiat-e Islami-yi Afghanistan General Zia ul Haq George Bush Barack Obama 136 Unless the United States rights its policies with respect to Pakistan, it has no hope of bringing...

...- whelming focus on counterterrorism. In the years after the attacks on the United States in 2001, co- operation against Al Qaeda was regarded as too important to jeopardize by confronting Pakistan s military-intelligence establishment over lesser evils like the Taliban. With the death last year of Osama bin...

... United States Iraq Afghanistan Osama bin Laden George Bush 9-11 Ayman Zawahiri Muslim We know that we re killing a lot, captur-ing a lot, collecting arms, Secretary ofDefense Donald Rumsfeld reportedly told a meeting of defense analysts and retired offi- cers at the Pentagon last year. We...

... reserved. 2004 The Regents of the University of California Spain Al Qaeda ETA United States Jose Marìa Aznar Iraq Jose Luis Rodrìguez Zapatero Madrid Tony Blair Osama bin Laden Did Terrorism Sway Spain s Election? CHARLES POWELL On March 14, 2004, three days after trainbombings...

... supported these tribes against the government. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Al Qaeda Bakil Osama bin Laden Hashid Saudi Arabia terrorism USS Cole United States Yemen 40 Yemen has earned the dubious...

...Ann M. Lesch What was the importance of the Sudanese sojourn for Osama bin Laden? One can argue that, without the sanctuary in Sudan, the Arabs who had fought in Afghanistan would have dispersed. Some would have gone home; others would have scattered in exile. Over time, their strength would have...

... political debate or economic competition. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Al Qaeda Bush Europe Osama bin Laden September Taliban terrorism United States World Trade Center Proportionality is a recurring theme...

...Mark N. Katz Although the same ‘root causes’ that helped previous transnational revolutionary leaders have also aided Osama bin Laden, he also faces the same obstructing factors they did, and thus his grandiose revolutionary ambitions are failing too. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved...

... the likelihood of a new terrorist-inflicted disaster? © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Al Qaeda extremists Hezbollah Israel Lebanon Middle East Muslim Osama bin Laden Palestinian Persian Gulf How prudently will the United...

... democracy diplomacy Middle East Osama bin Laden Saudi Arabia Taliban terrorists 36 Bin Laden speaks in the vivid language of popular Islamic preachers, and builds on a deep and widespread resentment against the West and local ruling elites identified with it. The lack of formal outlets...

... of other militant Islamist organizations intent on wreaking havoc on the Western world. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan Al Qaeda Islam Middle East Osama bin Laden Pakistan South Asia Taliban terrorism United...

... Afghanistan terrorism Al Qaeda coalition George Bush Islam Northern Alliance Osama bin Laden Taliban United States The post cold war era ended abruptly on themorning of September 11, 2001. From themoment terrorists turned jetliners into weapons of mass destruction, the United States...

.... 2001 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan George Bush Middle East militant Islam Israel Osama bin Laden Palestinian terrorism United States 415 An infusion of hope is needed in the midst of despair, a supply of ammunition in the war of ideas for those...

... Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Afghanistan al Qaeda jihad Madrassah Osama bin Laden Pakistan September Terrorism United States War Awar on terrorism must be fought on manyfronts, using every tool at the Americangovernment s...

... into their notions of cosmic war. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California activists Algeria al Qaeda Christianity guerrilla Islam Osama bin Laden religion terrorism World Trade Center attacks Afghanistan, conditions will deteriorate even...