In Terrorism Fight, Wariness Tempers Optimism
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Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, public opinion on terrorism is delicately balanced between confidence and caution.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pleased with recent results in the fight against terror, but says the fight will continue uncompromisingly.
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Osama bin Laden's first video in almost three years has drawn enthusiastic support from al Qaeda supporters but other Muslims in the Arab world seem less impressed, and wary of new violence.
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FRANKFURT -- While the British public reacted to the latest terrorist strike there with stoicism and a practiced determination to get on with life, Germany has erupted in a rancorous dispute over how to deal with a terrorist threat that has yet to materialize here.
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Experts say the terrorist network has rebuilt in Pakistan with inexperienced leaders and murky goals.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Two unlikely factors - the maneuverings of Hamas, a group the United States considers a chief sponsor of terrorism, and a widespread fear of chaos among Palestinians - are combining to create some hope in the run-up to next month&#39;s
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A limited easing of security tensions raises hopes for a better Christmas.
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Some officials believe the Muslim Brotherhood, a secretive and diverse movement opposed to Western influences, offers a chance for political engagement that could help isolate violent jihadists.
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PARIS -- Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks forced the West to take a collective crash course on Islamic terrorism, the myths endure: The militants are impoverished and uneducated. Lifelong religious fervor drives them to embrace jihad. Al Qaeda aggressively recruits and brainwashes the men.
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Jarret Brachman recently told a class of West Point cadets that many Americans had an unsophisticated image of Islamic terrorists &#151; that they live in caves, "you know, beating the women over their heads." On the contrary, the U.S. is fighting a far more technologically savvy enemy &#151; one adept at both propaganda and Power Point &#151; said Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
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Terrorist attacks affect people's mental health even when they are not directly involved, experts say.
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President Bush isn't the only world leader facing doubts about his handling of the war on terror. People in Australia, Italy and Britain also harbor reservations about how well their nation's leaders are holding terrorists at bay.
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In a Sunni stronghold just south of Baghdad, the U.S. military has been persuading militants to switch sides. But itâs not at all clear that the enemyâs new enemy is really a friend.
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Just when President Bush was trying to accentuate the positive in Iraq and declare a new beginning in the war on terror, a rash of bad news comes from multiple fronts in the global struggle.
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Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the governmentâs track record  against winning terrorism prosecutions has been decidedly spottier than in previous years.
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Management is optimistic, but this is a tough environment in which to gain a good foothold.
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The unity that followed the September 11 attacks five years ago was never going to last. But the nation has not merely returned to the messy family arguments of September 10. All wars bring a reckoning of means and ends, and the war on terrorism has long since lost its crisp moral lines. Americans may agree that terrorism is wicked, but they're still unsure about how to answer it.