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...must recognize that the central front in the war on terror is not in Iraq, and it never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is unacceptable that almost seven years after 9/11, those responsible for the attacks remain at large. If another attack on our homeland occurs, it will likely come from this same region where 9/11 was planned. Yet today we have five times more troops in Iraq than Afghanistan...
...songs to great "What IS that?" effect on the soundtrack of his film Broken Flowers. Will this new series of concerts heralds a Buena Vista Social Club kind of renaissance for Ethiopian music? Perhaps. But just as important, says Falceto, is that the music finds an audience in its homeland and among the country's diaspora communities. "Ethiopiques is a bridge between the generations," he says. "This was their parents' music - and it's groovy...
...people a higher priority. Seth Jones, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., says that Pakistan has become the neglected stepchild, only third or fourth in a list of U.S. strategic interests that start with Iraq and Afghanistan. "Pakistan should be No. 1," says Jones. "The most serious homeland threat to the United States from abroad comes from militant groups operating in Pakistan...
...that's true, why do so many political leaders continue to warn about the threat - or even the likelihood - of another major terrorist attack? Why did the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate say al-Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of homeland attack capability"? Why would the head of Britain's domestic intelligence service, MI5, say there were 2,000 citizens and other U.K. residents who posed a serious threat to security, a number of whom took direction from al-Qaeda? The struggle against al‑Qaeda - and, to a lesser extent, the quest to capture bin Laden - has dominated...
...thousands of miles away with only fragments of the medical chart," says Paul Pillar, former top analyst and deputy director of the CIA's counterterrorism center, who now teaches at Georgetown University. Says Frances Fragos Townsend, who stepped down last November as chief of President George W. Bush's Homeland Security Council, "I've read all the same conflicting reports [on bin Laden's health] that people have talked to you about. I never found one set of reporting more persuasive than another...