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Article: Bali bombing may raise questions on Bush's targeting Iraq.(Chicago Tribune)
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- October 14, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ While the White House prefers to focus on Iraq and the clear threat the Bush administration insists that Saddam Hussein poses, the accelerating series of worldwide terrorist attacks is wrenching the administration's emphasis back to the unfinished and amorphous war against al-Qaida.
The weekend bombing outside a nightclub in Indonesia and other recent attacks, presumed to be the work of al-Qaida, are adding new credence to administration critics who contend that the White House has been imperiling the war against al-Qaida terror cells by shifting the world's attention and the nation's resources to a potential war against Iraq.
"Al-Qaida is ...