Top antitrust officials and senior democratic law makers are seeking to focus on industries that may be plagued with antitrust concerns. This is a major reversal on the previous administration’s policy of not prosecuting large, dominant companies who have engaged in antitrust practices.

Some of the cases being reviewed by the antitrust chief at the Justice Department:

• Small agricultural operations may have been improperly obstructed by larger food processors. This is most notably true with the milk industry.
• Compliants are being examined whether the Federal Trade Commission and consumer groups are within or unreasonably preventing pharmaceutical drug companies from marketing generic drugs.
• Another case is between book publishers and Google regarding Google’s book scanning operation.
• Verizon and ATT filed a compliant against Cablevision and Cox Communications, saying that they are unable to purchase sports shows and other programs produced by the cable operators.

In Osama Bin Laden’s Letter To America, the topics of women and family take a deeply personal tone.

(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.

(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.

Al Queda promotes a traditional understanding of family. In this system of belief, the purpose of women is bound intricately to the process of reproduction — a social existence centered around raising children and home building. This traditionalist belief system is at the core of the al Queda campaign — not dissimilar from Fundamentalist Christian or Judaism. The extremes to which al Queda is willing to go makes this group unqiue however. Theirs is a deep and thorough hatred of of contemporary society as spear-headed by the United States.