PART 1: Get him before Sept
11 Some time over the
past few months Osama bin Laden traveled into
Pakistan, where he is now lying low, quietly
orchestrating the regrouping of his al-Qaeda
network which, like him, is very much
alive.
PART 2: What he's up to
For many
years, long before September 11, Osama bin Laden
has followed a vision, a vision that has at its
core the elimination of Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia as they exist today. It's all part of a
Sunni Islamic revolution in which the United
States is an incidental
casualty.
PART 3:
The sheikh against the
Saudi In many ways,
the battle to win the hearts and minds of the
Arab world revolves around two men - Saudi Crown
Prince Abdullah and Osama bin Laden. At a
personal level, the men are vastly different -
one moderate, one revolutionary - as are their
goals for a new Arab world. And the
revolutionary has the upper hand at
present.
PART 4: Tracking al-Qaeda in
Europe The
al-Qaeda European connection reveals itself to
be a mind-boggling labyrinth, although it has
emerged that the key countries in the network's
operations are Belgium, the UK, Germany, Spain,
Italy and France. Beyond that, investigations
continue ...
PART 5:
Intelligence matters While
intelligence services in Europe keep nabbing the
odd presumed al-Qaeda member, in Afghanistan and
the tribal areas of Pakistan the story is
completely different. Another e-mail from a key
intelligence-related source inside Pakistan once
more sends the message: "The new theater of war
is here."
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