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Posted on 10/06/2001 8:43:59 PM PDT by Weirdad

October 7 2001

The target and timing may be unclear, but America and the other western powers have a formidable ability to punish when they are ready, writes Tony Allen-Mills in Washington

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Saudi bomb attack kills American
Britain and America could deploy large numbers of ground troops in Afghanistan to stabilise the country if the Taliban regime crumbles

The unofficial war cabinet
Blair's top six advisors

America rallies behind 'forceful' prime minister
Tony Blair's speech to Labour conference hogs headlines in America

Geri limbers up for desert show
Former Spice Girl relaxes before concert for troops in Oman

Taliban leader orders release of British journalist in Kabul
Michael Sheridabn and Nick Fielding on the nine western hostages

Cash blow for heirs of Osama
Adam Nathan on the Bin Laden family

Britain on alert for revenge over military strike
David Leppard and Jonathon Carr-Brown on the home front

Bracing for war
What the military, security services, airlines and hospitals and doing

Relatives haunted by chilling images
The tragedy of the Twin Tower jumpers, by Sarah Baxter in New York

Finance ministers predict recovery
Group of Seven industrial countries state that there will be a quick recovery from the short-term problems of the world economy

Saudis look both ways and pray the worst won't happen
Stuart Wavell hears the ambiguous message from a nervous nation

An Ernst Stavro Blofeld for our times
Roland White on villians

How can we tackles Islamic extremists
Experts give their view

Warlord has plans for global revolt
Tom Walker, Diplomatic Correspondent, on Osama Bin Laden's master plan

Inside Bin Laden's academies of terror
Stephen Grey and Dipesh Gadher on what happens inside the terror camps

The devil rides on the rumour mill
AA Gill on how urban myths and apocyphal stories set the world's imagination on fire

How the holy terror cut a swathe through a nation
Jon Swain, in Peshawar, on the evils of the Taliban

Mullahs flood border markets with narcotics
The Taliban are selling off stocks of opium stored in mosques. By Michael Sheridan in Islamabad

Insight - The proof they did not reveal
Two key pieces of evidence were missing from the government's dossier on the US attacks, made public last week. Now full details of the case against Bin Laden can be disclosed

Evil inspiration from the history books
What distinguishes the World Trade Center attackers from other movements is their willingness to kill themselves


Britain's network of terror suspects
Fifteen UK residents and what links them

America searches for the perfect weapon of attack
Tony Allen-Mills in Washington on military tactics

The military offensive
The favoured attack strategy and a second option

Cloaked spies watch Taliban's men dig in round Kabul
From Mark Franchetti inside Afghanistan, 30 miles from Kabul

Editorial
Only the beginning

Martin Ivens
Ask not what you can do for your image

John Humphreys
The little starving boy and the brave new moral order

Profile: Donald Rumsfeld
The hawk with his finger on the trigger

Letters
Clinton too easy a scapegoat for security failures

Andrew Sullivan
The left's right out in the cold

Godfrey Smith
War talk from a family man

News roundup
Terror link to French explosion

Temples of doom
Cairo, the intellectual capital of the Arab world, is a hotbed of state-sanctioned anti-western fervour, finds Jeffrey Goldberg

A Great way to beat the Afghans
The lessons of Alexander the Great's conquest of Afghanistan deserve study by those planning to attack

A fundamental hatred of women
Mai Yamani says Muslin extremists who subjugate women in the name of God are wrong. The Koran sanctions nothing of the kind

The hell of Kabul, from a bus with a hole in it
Paul Theroux knew Afghanistan was going to pot when he had an explosive experience on the hippie trail in 1974

Irish accounts linked to Bin Laden
Two suspect account have been discovered at an Irish building society, following an international trawl to shut down the terrorist's financial network

Cavan town claims 'lost' Irish builders
Mystery surrounding the identity of three Cavan brothers said to have miraculously escaped from the World Trade Center attacks deepens

Mercy mission keeps Afghan aid flowing
ercy Corps Scotland is raising £1m for border camps after it was forced to leave its drought project

Boeing boss says crisis is far worse than Gulf war
Chairman of Boeing expects number of American airlines to go bust as result of terrorist attacks of September 11

Is Swissair the first of many to go bust?
Fiona Fleck, David Parsley and David Smith say even before September 11 the flagbearer was going nowhere

BA in danger of running out of money within five months
The troubled flag carrier could lose up to £1bn this year, writes Matt Getz

1944 and all that
As fear grips the air industry, many carriers are looking at how they can help each other survive

Morgan poised to quit Manhattan
Head of Morgan Stanley International (MSI) believes staff will never return to downtown Manhattan

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