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...Bush Administration has been singularly inept at making the small-bore calibrations necessary to fight the Iraqi insurgency-and so a political opportunity exists for Democrats to support something specific and useful in Iraq. They could call on the President to make coin-and support for operations like Forward Together-the U.S. military's highest priority. "It would make a great deal of sense for us to do that," says Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a West Point graduate and leading Democratic expert on military affairs. "This Administration has never embraced real solutions to practical problems on the ground...
...discreet "service provider" for Saudi Arabia. The lives of Saudis, and Bahrainis, are thoroughly framed by this arrangement, and its attendant hypocrisies. And both suffer the presence of its by-product: groups of stealthy, violent religious purists, graced with many opportunities to feel self-righteous. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...enforcement and other intelligence services. The word had to be spread. The device was unstoppable - for people walking onto subway cars, railroad trains or through crowded, enclosed areas of any kind. Selective awareness, under intense standards of secrecy, seemed to be the only response. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
Then Ali told his handlers something that left intelligence officials speechless and vexed. Al-Zawahiri had called off the attacks. Ali did not know the precise explanation why. He just knew al-Zawahiri had called them off. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...hoped would occur in Afghanistan. A second book, Crusaders' War, outlined a tactical model for fighting the American forces in Iraq, including "assassination and poisoning the enemy's food and drink," remotely triggered explosives, suicide bombings and lightning-strike ambushes. It was the playbook. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...