Bin Laden a New Target in Arab Media: A cartoon this week showed fugitive Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden inside a dark cave "somewhere in Afghanistan," using a flute to charm a mushroom cloud out of a basket, as a serpent recoiled in horror. The cartoon represented one of the first alarms in the official media of Saudi Arabia and Egypt about the fervid support bin Laden attracts. The cartoon, by Lebanese Mahmoud Kahil in the English-language Saudi daily Arab News, and an opinion piece in Egypt's semi-official Al Ahram yesterday, mark a belated reaction to the threat presented by Islamic extremists and an effort by Islamic scholars to set the record straight on the distance between their religion and terrorism.