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Article: The Plotters Against America; Two new books disagree sharply about how big a threat Osama bin Laden and his allies pose.
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- The Washington Post
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- November 26, 2006
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF AL QAEDA
By Abdel Bari Atwan
Univ. of California. 256 pp. $24.95
WHAT TERRORISTS WANT
Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat
By Louise Richardson
Random House. 312 pp. $25.95
We should strike the term "terrorist group" from the lexicon of
those charged with beating Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and its allies.
The term defeats thought, understanding and imagination, and it
allows leaders in both parties to argue a politically correct
absurdity: that al-Qaeda threatens U.S. national security but that
our attackers are a limited number of criminal magicians who have
hijacked the faith of millions of Muslims and will "be brought to
justice one man at a time."
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