Sanjay Anand

Osama bides his time

We have al-Qa’eda on the run,’ President Bush was reported to have said in April. In May, al-Qa’eda and its associated groups masterminded a week of bombings which left more than 100 people dead. It looked like a deliberate riposte to the President’s triumphant optimism. There were two explosions in Chechnya on 12 May, which