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...United States and our allies have stopped deadly terrorist plots, including a 2002 plot to hijack an airplane and fly it into the tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles, a 2003 plot to hijack and crash multiple planes into targets on the East Coast, and a 2006 plot to blow up multiple passenger jets traveling from London...
...later heard that Jobs was so upset that he told his handlers he wasn't going to give the speech; he'd simply cancel the keynote. They had to spend a significant amount of energy talking him off the roof. So it's entirely possible that he decided to blow off IDG at the last minute...
...been keeping America safe since 2001. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 85 percent of Americans believed it was likely that we would be attacked again. The lack of attacks has not been for want of trying: since September 11 the U.S. Government has foiled plans to blow up ten planes flying from the UK to the United States simultaneously, the terrorist plot to explode JFK airport in New York, the Al Qaeda plan to fly an airplane into the tallest building in L.A., and other planned attacks, domestically and internationally. Considering the many foiled plots that have...
...Although the air war has so far claimed more than 400 Palestinian victims, and continues to inflict damage on Hamas - as well as, inevitably, on the civilians around it - Israelis believe the attacks have not yet delivered the deterrent blow they desired. Nor did that change as a result of Sunday's strike that killed top Hamas political-military figure Nizar Rayan. Although the assault on one of the movement's most senior figures has been interpreted by Hamas as an intentional body blow - and may yet prompt a furious retaliation - Israeli officials did not characterize it as a "targeted...
...critics in the Israeli military establishment insist that even the limited goal of delivering a punishing blow to deter further Hamas attacks requires the Israeli military to get at close quarters with the militants, disrupting their structures and their chain of command and killing more of their fighters - even at the cost of Israeli casualties. They also fear that the coming Israeli election - in which both Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are candidates, but the more hawkish Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu is the front runner - may be complicating Israel's decision-making. So even if the window of opportunity...