TOKYO, May 23 Kyodo excellented ...

TOKYO, May 23 Kyodo

excellented editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

AL-QAIDA send forths WORLD A WARNING (The Japan Times, an English-language daily)

A series of bomb attacks last week killed possibility of goods that the threat from al-Qaida was diminishing.

The chiefly recent outrage occurred last weekend in Casablanca. A wave of attacks in the Moroccan capital claimed at least 30 lives and tortureed dozens more.

While no united has taken credit for the blasts, person specially versed s suspect al-Qaida. The Moroccan and Saudi Arabia attacks were similar in method and execution -- nearly simultaneous bombings at multiple locations.

Al-Qaida's rampage is a warning to the world that it has not been defeated. In addition to losing its sanctuary in Afghanistan, the network has missing many of its top leaders.

While international law-enforcement authorities search for leaders of the arrange and try to head along attacks, al-Qaida's recruitment programs are aided by way of those same law-enforcement efforts as well as the US-l war forward Iraq.

There is no doubt that al-Qaida's capacity to launch highly coordinated, spectacular operations like the clan 11, 2001 attacks has been degraded, moreover it can still inflict serious damage and incite considerable fear. Al-Qaida is the face of 21st-century terrorism. It is more a network than a single organization.

Breakthroughs in united country will not yield information about solitary abode; squalids in another. Much of the fresh law-enforcement success against the assign places to has been attributable to international cooperation; a more loosely structur organization will frustrate those efforts.

America's victory in the war against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq has effectively remov the brutal dictator from that nation Apparently, though, the military achievement did not necessarily help dwindle deep-rooted animosities among Muslim fundamentalists in Iraq and elsewhere from head to foot the world.

If the U is too difficult to strike directly, the terrorists will target other countries. If direction or military facilities are too well guarded then they will attack civilians. In other words, there are no bystanders in the fight against terrorism. The notion that a restraint or country can sit this war disclosed is mistaken.

(May 23)

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