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...Sept. 5] said that according to recent European intelligence reports, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, "now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists." Such stories exaggerate the importance of al-Qaeda and al-Zarqawi. He is nothing but a low-level hit man. And now the media have enhanced his grandeur, providing more motivation to the harebrained Islamist yokels terrorizing the world! These people thrive on sensational news stories. Will the media please stop glorifying the horrendous activities of these burned-out thugs and stop labeling them "jihadists?" Brigadier Mateen...
...million budget deficit, renegotiated many municipal contracts on more favorable terms and cut red tape by putting applications for permits and other requests online. He won high marks for an anticorruption drive that targeted notorious centers of graft like the Taxicab Bureau and resulted in the arrests of many low-level city officials...
...Ahmed set off on one of his periodic tours of the combat zone, meeting with local insurgent leaders, distributing money and passing along news--a trip later pieced together by U.S. intelligence analysts wading through the mountain of data and intelligence provided by low-level local informants. Al-Ahmed started in his hometown of Mosul, where he had been supervising--from a distance--the rebuilding of the local insurgent network disrupted after Saddam's capture. He moved on to Hawija, where he met a man thought to be a senior financier of the insurgency in north-central Iraq. After...
...clearance, asking if they had ever seen it before. The prosecutor believes that the memo circulated among officials aboard Air Force One, according to sources familiar with Fitzgerald's line of questioning. Some traveling reporters to Africa were told on background that Wilson was sent to Niger by a low-level staff member at the CIA. At one point, White House officials on the trip were saying, "Look who sent him," as if to spur reporters to dig deeper...
What may have seemed a little too up to date in Kansas City has already become a part of life in offices and plants across the U.S. Companies no longer treat drug problems as an embarrassing aberration limited to a few low-level employees. While most firms have long been aware of the toll that alcoholism takes on workers, they are now confronted with widespread abuse of illegal drugs as well, from the shop floor to the executive suite...