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...flight schools. The grunts were made to slit the throats of camels and sheep to overcome their inhibitions about murder. Abdulmutallab, by contrast, reportedly used a syringe to try to detonate a notoriously hard-to-detonate explosive called PETN. "To make this stuff work," says Van Romero, an explosives expert at New Mexico Tech, "you have to know what you're doing." Abdulmutallab, it appears, did not. (See pictures of the privileged life of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...world. A 2007 study by Canada's Simon Fraser University found the global death toll from terrorist attacks has substantially decreased since 2001. While al-Qaeda plots do sometimes succeed - like the double-agent operation that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan last month - they have become, Rand terrorism expert Brian Jenkins points out, less frequent and less potent...
...cell-phone calls, and drones track al-Qaeda leaders around the clock. And while government no-fly lists remain flawed, at least they exist. Today, the number of suspected terrorists prohibited from boarding a plane in the U.S. is about 4,000. Before Sept. 11, according to al-Qaeda expert Peter Bergen, it was 16. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...didn't help that no single piece of information about Abdulmutallab was conclusive. For instance, a father's complaining that his son had joined the jihadist cause in Yemen doesn't automatically point to a threat to the homeland. Obama has vowed to improve intelligence sharing, but some experts are skeptical that the system can ever be fail-safe. "The next time, we may not have this many data points," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University. "It may never be this good again...
...Charles Zelden, a history professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale and an expert on judicial politics in Florida, says Rothstein could still "create a real mess" in the state's public arena. He doubts that Rothstein - who could be facing life in prison on the charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering leveled against him - would plead guilty if he hadn't struck a beneficial deal with the feds. They in turn almost certainly expect Rothstein "to name names," says Zelden, not only of those who might have aided the Ponzi scheme, "but of politicians who may have...