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...Since we're using the driver's license as a de facto national ID, Durbin argues, let's make it more reliable. As it stands, the chief requirement is that one knows how to drive. This is fine if the only intent is to ensure that someone behind the wheel has mastered turn signals, but it shouldn't be sufficient to get someone into a federal building, the Olympics or an airplane. All a terrorist needs to do is shop around for a lax state (Florida still doesn't require proof of permanent residency) or resort to a forger with...
...more importantly, has lost the sanctuary that allowed it to reproduce and expand its terror networks. The battle to uproot and eliminate those networks may yet take years, but it will be waged primarily by the world's law enforcement and intelligence services. Al Qaeda no longer has de facto control over a whole country, and the world is a safer place...
...While the intifada has made Hamas a de facto ally of Fatah and the PA in the day-to-day battles against the Israelis, the Islamist group remains resolutely opposed to any attempt to restore the crippled peace process. Their latest wave of suicide bombings are designed in part to sabotage U.S. efforts to broker a cease-fire, and the resulting international pressure on Arafat has set him on a collision course with Hamas...
...deal is done--though, for a while, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration wanted to classify the Segway as a "powered industrial truck." Technically, final sidewalk authority rests with state and local governments. Kamen is betting, however, that the decision will be made not by lawmakers but "de facto, by what becomes standard practice. If we have police and mail carriers riding on the sidewalks for a year, how is anyone in government going...
...deal brokered Thursday between Taliban commanders and Hamid Karzai, commander of opposition forces to the north of Kandahar and de facto leader of the post-Taliban Afghanistan, gives Afghan Taliban an amnesty and undertakes to deport foreign fighters and bring terrorists to justice. But the status under the deal of Mullah Omar, one of the prime targets of the U.S. campaign, remains unclear...