Word: bremer
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...exile, Ahmad Chalabi - in order to diminish the period of direct rule by the U.S. military. But the State Department had warned against a rush to install an exile-dominated leadership of uncertain standing among Iraqis. Next week, Garner hands the reins of the transition over to Paul "Jerry" Bremer, a seasoned State Department antiterrorism official tapped to supercede the retired general as U.S. viceroy in Baghdad. And the plans may yet change after that - on any number of fronts...
...would scatter could sicken and kill unknown numbers of people and contaminate an unknown stretch of real estate. Because the bomb would require no special skill to build, it's perhaps the most feared of the terrorists' nuclear choices. "They don't kill as many people," says Morton Bremer Maerli, a nuclear-terror expert at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, "but as a weapon of terror, they may be just as effective...
...Today?s pervasive sense of uncertainty has changed the corporate landscape forever. Dealing with terrorist threats themselves is relatively straightforward, although it may require American companies to be more open and collaborative with each other than they are used to. Ambassador Paul Bremer, former chief of the State Department?s office of counter-terrorism, says companies need to rethink the contingencies for a variety of disasters, from workplace violence to tainted products and industrial accidents. "If you handle an incident well, there should be minimal impact on how the company is perceived," says Bremer. "If you don?t, then both...
...ease with which terrorists now move across borders has rendered the compartmentalized approach obsolete. "That little piece of information from an FBI field office in, say, Los Angeles could be crucial when combined with information coming in from Pakistan or the Philippines," says L. Paul Bremer, chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism. "The intelligence needs to be seamless between the international and domestic, and it's certainly not seamless...
Some say even that wouldn't be enough. "In a country of 250 million people, our vulnerabilities are essentially infinite," says Bremer of the National Commission on Terrorism. "No matter how good our intelligence is, no matter how much you change the FBI's culture, that is not going to be enough. The fundamental thing is to eradicate the terrorists." Which is why the most important work in preventing terrorism at home may be taking place abroad--in the mountains of Afghanistan, and in the efforts to freeze al-Qaeda-linked bank accounts around the globe...