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That prognosis, along with some on-the-ground intelligence and a well-aimed Hellfire missile, will get you a dead terrorist leader. Close watchers of the al-Qaeda terror network find such reports inherently unreliable. "It's trying to make a diagnosis from thousands of miles away with only fragments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Osama bin Laden Dying ... Again? | 6/30/2008 | See Source »

Throughout the whole of its regimen, the Paul Revere battalion only appears to have one speed—brisk. Even words aren’t allowed to loiter in the mouth. In fine military style, the outfit shortens most anything that can be shortened: operations orders become �...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Discipline, The ROTC Way | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND, White House aide, downplaying the influence of Osama bin Laden just after he released a video in which he ridicules President Bush

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

'This is about the best he can do. This is a man on the run, from a cave, who's virtually impotent other than these tapes.' FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND, White House aide, downplaying the influence of Osama bin Laden just after he released a video in which he ridicules President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

That Bush would have an adviser as bare-knuckled as Frances Fragos Townsend, 44, isn't unusual, particularly for a portfolio as vital as counterterrorism. He detests it when aides waste his time clearing their throat before getting to the point, and he has always had an affinity for forceful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Terror Consigliere | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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