World
-
ADD TIME NEWS
- MOBILE APPS
- NEWSLETTERS

What Is Al-Qaeda Without Its Boss?
A Northern Alliance soldier reads through papers found in a suspected al-Qaeda compound
AMIR SHAH/AP
(3 of 3)
By now it's a truism that terrorism can't be eradicated 100%. Even in the U.S., which is under extraordinary security, officials fear an attack at any time. And liquidating the al-Qaeda command will only fix part of the problem. The long-term solution requires tackling the underlying political, economic and social roots of terrorism--unresolved demands for Palestinian rights, perversion of Islam by radical clerics, corruption and poverty in many Arab states and grievances over U.S. policy in the region. Bin Laden and his lieutenants didn't start the wave of Islamic terrorism; they only rode it for a while. Which is why they won't be totally defeated, even in the flames of an-Nar.
- « PREV PAGE
- 1
- 2
- 3
Most Popular »
- The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time
- Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge
- In Italy, A Sex Scandal to Rival Berlusconi's
- Satyam Computer Fraud Grows to $2.5 Billion
- Black Friday
- Workers of the World vs. China Inc.
- The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?
- Pie
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
- How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time
- Is Gene Therapy Finally Ready for Prime Time?
- The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?
- Workers of the World vs. China Inc.
- Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge
- In Italy, A Sex Scandal to Rival Berlusconi's
- Satyam Computer Fraud Grows to $2.5 Billion
- Dearborn's Muslims Fear a Fort Hood Backlash
Quotes of the Day »
ROBB LEVIN, resident of Fairfax, Virginia, on the $15,000 lawsuit settlement made against Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the White House gate crashers, who are also involved in at least 15 other civil suits







RSS