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Soundtrack: famous broadcast by
Gordon Sinclair "The Americans" June 5, 1973
Sep
26, 2001
President Bush and other officials have described Osama bin
Laden, a Saudi exile believed to be living in Afghanistan who has
been blamed for numerous anti-American attacks, as the prime suspect
in the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on
Sept. 11. The following articles have been compiled from the
archives.
THE ORGANIZATION
Holy Warriors Escalate an Old War on a New Front
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
(Sept. 16) The airborne
assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is the
culmination of a decade-long holy war against the United States that
is escalating methodically in ambition, planning and execution.
THE SUSPECT
Bin Laden: Child of Privilege Who Champions Holy War
By JUDITH MILLER
(Sept. 14) With his gentle
eyes, skeletal frame, long black beard and habitual Kalashnikov,
Osama bin Laden has become the world's most reviled symbol of
terror.
THE WARNING
America the Vulnerable Meets a Ruthless Enemy
By JOHN F. BURNS
(Sept. 12) In a tape
delivered to a Kuwaiti newspaper this summer, Osama bin Laden seemed
to gloat as he spoke in Arabic of future attacks on American targets
that he said would dwarf those he has directed in the past.
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 MANUAL
Translation: 'The How-to Book of Terrorism'
By ALAN FEUER and BENJAMIN WEISER
(April 5) Three men accused
in the embassy bombing trial may have learned everything they know
from a guide that virtually serves as a "how-to" book on being a
good terrorist.
• Excerpts:
The
ABC's of Terror |
Week in Review
THE EVIDENCE
U.S. to Offer Detailed Trail of bin Laden in Bomb Trial
By BENJAMIN WEISER
(Jan. 13) Court filings in
the prosecution of four men charged in the 1998 bombings of American
embassies in Africa show that the United States had enough evidence
before the blasts to indict Osama bin Laden in the killings of
American forces in Somalia in 1993.
HOLY WARRIORS / A
SPECIAL REPORT One
Man and a Global Web of Violence
By STEPHEN ENGELBERG
Osama bin Laden has created a kind of clearinghouse for Islamic
terrorism in his Al Qaeda group, which American officials say is the
center of a global Islamic holy war.
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.
