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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (286)	11/15/2001 1:45:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

A West Bank pollster now thinks that power in the territories has shifted away from Arafat: The clearest expression of this trend, which Shikaki has been reporting for the last few months, is a growing political imbalance in the territories. For the first time, support for the Islamic nationalists (31 percent) has pulled ahead of support for Fatah (30 percent.) Shikaki's conclusion is unequivocal: "Arafat and the Old Guard will remain for now incapable of making a full commitment to the cease-fire. They lack the capacity to enforce one. Indeed, since the eruption of the second intifada, they have to walk a delicate tightrope: the PA no longer enjoys a monopoly over the use of force, its legitimacy is questioned by the street, the public is also very supportive of violence and highly opposed to any clampdown on the Islamists or the Young Guard, and no viable political process is looming over the horizon. haaretz.co.il

To: Scoobah who wrote (286)	11/15/2001 2:07:06 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

BIN LADEN'S NUCLEAR SECRETS FOUND November 15, 2001 The Times of London reports: “Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network held detailed plans for nuclear devices and other terrorist bombs in one of its Kabul headquarters. The Times discovered the partly burnt documents in a hastily abandoned safe house in the Karta Parwan quarter of the city. Written in Arabic, German, Urdu and English, the notes give detailed designs for missiles, bombs and nuclear weapons. There are descriptions of how the detonation of TNT compresses plutonium into a critical mass, sparking a chain reaction, and ultimately a thermonuclear reaction. Both President Bush and British ministers are convinced that bin Laden has access to nuclear material and Mr. Bush said earlier this month that al-Qaeda was ‘seeking chemical, biological and nuclear weapons’. The discovery of the detailed bomb-making instructions, along with studies into chemical and nuclear devices, confirms the West’s worst fears and raises the specter of plans for an attack that would far exceed the September 11 atrocities in scale and gravity…” jvim.com