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...world has changed as a result of Sept. 11. You don't want to minimize the threat, but you don't want to blow it out of proportion. Intelligence information is by definition murky, it's not wrapped with a nice bow and presented to us. So we give people the bottom line of what we have. I don't see it as a contradiction so much, I see it as a changed world. If you don't go about your life, then you're significantly altering the American way of life without ever having a shot fired here...
There may be new surprises ahead, apart from the expected challenges of taking Baghdad. Washington has pointed to the capture of two airfields in western Iraq as a blow to Saddam's ability to menace Israel with Scud missiles, as he did in the 1991 war. But the U.S. has what it considers credible intelligence that some Scuds have eluded detection in western Iraq, within striking distance of Israel. "We're not out of the woods yet," a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME. Saddam may have "a Scud or two that he's saving for the right moment...
...rapprochement? Bush appreciated DeLay's support on Iraq: when some Republicans were criticizing the war rhetoric last summer, DeLay gave an impassioned speech in favor of military action. Bush also knows DeLay could be a problem if he's not in the loop. The Hammer "has the ability to blow things up" if he's not consulted, says a House G.O.P. aide...
...Department official said. But sources tell TIME that el-Shukrijumah has long been in the FBI's sights, though investigators only recently matched up his photo and aliases with his true identity. He was known to be friends with Imran Mandhai, who pleaded guilty last year to plotting to blow up a National Guard armory and electrical-power stations in Florida, and el-Shukrijumah's name has surfaced in investigations of other terrorist episodes. Agents first questioned his family in Miramar, Fla., shortly after 9/11 and have since visited half a dozen times. Now the FBI is looking into...
...another blow to confidence, the Hong Kong government's quarantine efforts turned out to be remarkably porous. While 200 or so Block E residents were herded into isolation camps, 113 other families living in the infected building sneaked away?perhaps dispersing the disease farther. Other families from neighboring blocks in Amoy Gardens have complained that the government is still reacting too slowly and not providing adequate health monitoring. "The Department of Health isn't giving good advice," says Julianna Wong, whose father-in-law lives in Block D and was diagnosed with the disease on March 31. "Unless...