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...flawed reporting in a story about President Bush's National Guard service, the longtime journalist hoped to snare some meaty assignments on 60 Minutes. But "after a protracted struggle," Rather said, CBS execs "had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work," and network and newsman parted months before the end of Rather's contract, in November. CBS tried to make nice, calling Rather "extraordinary" and promising to air a special on his 44-year career there in the fall. Just don't look for one with a happy ending...
...which Americans are getting nabbed. Mostly, they're young, lower-middle-class Muslims, Americans who flirt at some level with radicalism. They get caught when they try to get training, weapons or, as was apparently the case in Florida, when they reach out, however ham-handedly, to a larger network. "Anyone who forms their own little group and then tries to connect with al-Qaeda is more likely to run into government agents than al-Qaeda agents," says John Nutter, a terrorism expert and professor at the University of Toledo. "Clearly our government is watching those types of contacts...
...information for 14- and 15-year-olds; MySpace users who are 18 or over could no longer request to be on a 14- or 15-year-old's friends' list unless they already know either the youth's e-mail address or full name. But experts question whether social network sites can prevent posters from lying about their age. The proposed changes "are inadequate because they lack any age verification and leave the minimum age too low," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. "They fail to raise the age threshold to 16 and take steps to verify...
...capture of Abu Zubaydah, the head of recruiting for al-Qaeda, by U.S. and Pakistani officials in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in 2002, was hailed by the Bush administration as a key blow to the al-Qaeda network. "The capture of Abu Zubaydah is very helpful in making it more difficult for them to successfully reorganize," said Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary at the time. "Al-Qaeda has many tentacles but one of them was cut off." But Suskind reports that the CIA learned that Zubaydah had suffered a head wound during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In fact...
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