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...vital to national security. Senior intelligence officials tell TIME that CIA Director Porter Goss plans to launch by Oct. 1 an "open source" unit that will greatly expand on the work of the respected but cash-strapped office that currently translates foreign-language broadcasts and documents like declarations by extremist clerics. The budget, which could be in the ballpark of $100 million, is to be carefully monitored by John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who discussed the new division with Goss in a meeting late last month. "We will want this to be a separate, identifiable line...
...Greek culture, the word "Europe" itself would not have been around for use in your cover title. Nadine A. Papachristou Athens A Terrorist in Training Your report about the Iraqi suicide bomber was extremely insightful [July 4-11]. I think the public needs to learn more about Iraqi extremists. Few people ask why the bombers give up their lives. It's much easier to label those people as outcasts without trying to understand their position. I want to read more interviews with those militants. I know it's dangerous to gather information on the views of extremist individuals...
...Your report about the Iraqi suicide bomber was extremely insightful [July 4]. I think the public needs to learn more about Iraqi extremists. Few people ask why the bombers give up their lives. It's much easier to label those people as outcasts without trying to understand their position. I want to read more interviews with those militants. I know it's dangerous to gather information on the views of extremist individuals, but the stories the bombers tell are invaluable. Jeff Hayford Nashua, New Hampshire...
...Ghazala Garden Hotel. The roof collapsed, and police Saturday looked amid the rubble for survivors and the dead. Soon after the first two attacks, a bomb left inside a bag in a parking lot went off, killing six tourists. It's unclear who carried out the assult, though an extremist Islamic group has claimed responsibility. "Whoever did this," said Karam Mahmoud Mohammed Hamid as he cleaned up broken glass at his pharmacy in the market, "has no religion...
...ever released, I'd do the same again. Exactly the same." MUHAMMAD BOUYERI, Islamic extremist, expressing no remorse at his trial for the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh...