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Homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff tried to explain last week why air security has been given greater priority than protecting mass transit on the ground. "A fully loaded airplane with jet fuel ... has the capacity to kill 3,000 people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration...
...teaching Islam to more than 1.5 million students in Pakistan, including young Brits. A militant in Jaish-e-Muhammad, a group whose activists were responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan as well as the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, believes that Britain is a fertile recruiting ground for al-Qaeda foot soldiers. "It's an ideal situation," he says. "The young Muslims over there are not happy with the way Muslims are being treated and want to do something about...
...from the hard currency of military intelligence: he recently said that the insurgency was in its "last throes." The President makes a prime-time television address to the nation about Iraq in late June and merely rehearses campaign platitudes without offering a serious discussion of the problems on the ground and the real sacrifices needed to overcome them. Some liberals--equally feckless--may have complained that Bush didn't announce a timetable for withdrawing the troops, but the speech was far more disappointing to those who see success in Iraq as crucial to the larger war against terrorism...
...more than 1.5 million students in Pakistan, including young Brits. A militant in Jaish-e-Muhammad, a group whose activists have been responsible for suicide bombings in Pakistan as well as the slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, told Time that Britain is now a fertile recruiting ground for al-Qaeda foot soldiers. "It's an ideal situation," he says. "The young Muslims over there are not happy with the way Muslims are being treated and want to do something about...
...experienced, on the ground, a lot of the issues that she herself will be addressing, so I think she will do an excellent job,†said Kay K. Shelemay, Watts professor of music at Harvard and a member of the Committee on Ethnic Studies. “She has a lot of experience...