“Our war on terror is just beginning,” stated President George W. Bush in his January 2002 State of the Union address. During the previous four months, in response to the September 11 attack, the United States had captured and arrested thousands of terrorists, destroyed terrorist training camps located in Afghanistan, and helped to liberate Afghanistan from the fundamentalist Taliban regime. However, at the beginning of 2002, terrorist instigator Osama bin Laden, as well as unknown numbers of his accomplices in the al-Qaeda terrorist network, remained at large. As the United States’ inability to capture bin Laden illustrates, the war on terrorism is proving to be a difficult one. America’s task is made more arduous by the fact that, as analysts maintain, the problem of terrorism extends far beyond the scope of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. For example, the U...