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...balloons hadn't even settled in Boston's Fleet Center after John Kerry's acceptance speech when George W. Bush's campaign set about popping them. The President's top aides had been BlackBerrying little darts to one another all through the address, and now they were on a conference call, comparing notes across a virtual war room. Bush confidante Karen Hughes in Texas said Kerry had come across as "lecturing," pointing his finger like a schoolmaster. In his Washington living room, Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, said Kerry's position on Iraq was a "puzzlement," a contradiction...
...heroin-trafficking enterprise that is a principal source of funding for the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists. A Western law-enforcement official in Kabul who is tracking Khan says agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan, after a tip-off in May, turned up evidence that Khan is employing a fleet of cargo ships to move Afghan heroin out of the Pakistani port of Karachi. The official says at least three vessels on return trips from the Middle East took arms like plastic explosives and antitank mines, which were secretly unloaded in Karachi and shipped overland to al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters...
...deterrents in place are impressive. NATO will provide AWACS aircraft to monitor Greek airspace. The U.S. Sixth Fleet will patrol the Mediterranean while the Turkish and Italian navies cruise the Aegean and Ionian seas. A 70,000-strong force of Greek police and military--nearly twice the number of troops deployed in Kosovo in 1999--will patrol the country. Security personnel will outnumber athletes 7 to 1. Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians...
...rose by 159% in the first quarter of this year. Not surprisingly, traditional operators are feeling the pinch. Shares in Germany's TUI, Europe's largest, have slid by almost 30% since January. And debt-laden British package operator MyTravel recently announced it would cut its aircraft fleet to slash costs, with rival Thomas Cook dropping winter package prices to try to cut losses. But travel sites aren't necessarily thriving. U.K.-based lastminute.com last week announced...
...Boston, the scramble to prepare for the possibility of another attack offered a panorama last week of the country's metamorphosis. Police divers in the Port of Seattle combed the hulls of cruise ships for explosive devices. The Secret Service ordered that all food deliveries to Boston's Fleet Center, site of the Democratic National Convention, be tested for radioactive material. In Hennepin County, Minn., 2,500 government employees did a simulated evacuation of their 24-story office building. (They got out in 43 min.) "Complacency is a commodity we can't have," says Al Bataglia, Minnesota's homeland-security...