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...much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart. FX's cop drama The Shield introduced Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), a crooked, brutal--and extremely effective--L.A. cop, and left it up to us to decide whether his results justified his means. HBO's The Wire used the story of a single Baltimore drug investigation as a parable for the crisis...
...allegedly trying to trade drugs for Stinger missiles, the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons used to wipe out Soviet planes and helicopters in Afghanistan in the 1980s. A U.S. indictment of the three suspects claims that the arms were destined for al-Qaeda, and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has enthusiastically hailed the bust as a "strike against the terrorism/drug-trafficking nexus...
Maybe it was U.S. homeland Security chief Tom Ridge's visit to London last week. Or maybe it was just more aftershocks from last month's bombing in Bali. But suddenly Europe started feeling a lot like the U.S., where Ridge and Attorney General John Ashcroft issue terror alerts on what seems like a weekly basis. Britons were getting decidedly mixed messages from their government. On Thursday, the Home Office issued a statement saying that terrorists may "try to develop a so-called dirty bomb or some kind of poison gas. Maybe they will try to use boats or trains...
Carnahan was appointed interim senator after her husband, then Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, won his 2000 Senate race against John Ashcroft three weeks after dying in a plane crash...
...after the horrible events at the World Trade Center, street attacks against Muslims and those of Middle Eastern descent reached such a level that even President Bush went racing to the nearest mosque to call for an end to the violence. Two weeks after the attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft already had 40 anti-Muslim hate crime cases sitting on his desk. Several mosques were firebombed. A Sikh gas station attendant in Arizona was shot for merely looking like an Arab. Some things have improved since then, but much has not. Last month, the Center for American Islamic Relations...