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TAKING THE BAIT

Bush is giving bin Laden the war he wants

By Doug Ireland

In bombing Afghanistan, George W. Bush has handed Osama bin Laden a major victory. The strategic aim of the terrorists who struck the United States was to provoke Washington and its Western allies into sending planes and missiles against a lightly armed, utterly impoverished Muslim country—which already had the lowest caloric intake per person in the world, and where one in… return to article

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