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Jihadi Breeding Grounds Younger generations have acquired traumas of their own. Nahr al-Bared was once the most pleasant Palestinian camp in Lebanon, located near the northern city of Tripoli where a cold mountain stream meets the sea, and surrounded by orange orchards and banana plantations. Now it is a miniature Stalingrad on the Mediterranean. An uprising in the summer of 2007 by an insurgent jihadist group, Fatah al-Islam, reduced Nahr al-Bared to rubble and made its 31,000 residents homeless. Though most Fatah al-Islam members were not Palestinians but foreign Arabs from places such as Iraq...
You’d have to be living under a rock these days not to notice the grim state of the American economy. The financial crisis of last October has spiraled into a cataclysmic near-total collapse, with official unemployment figures spiking at 7.6 percent this month. President Obama has already made plans to resuscitate the economy through a massive stimulus package while somehow reducing the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history...
Earlier this month, the director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, told a Senate hearing that the global economic crisis had replaced terrorism as the "primary near-term security concern" for the U.S. Blair's office has produced a report saying that economic crises had already led to some degree of political instability in a quarter of the world's nations. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Entered office with high ratings that slowly dipped over his two terms. Near the end of his second term, when the state suffered from a $2.5 billion deficit and one of the highest unemployment rates in the land, Locke declined to raise taxes, angering fellow Democrats. He also turned his back on promises to reform education, eliminating teacher raises and angering their union, who effectively "un-endorsed" him. Thousands of teachers later marched on the state capitol...
...hundred years to travel one mile." - on getting sworn in at the state Capitol near where his grandfather had worked as an immigrant servant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer...