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...your heart out, 50 Cent: Less than a month into 2006, the ever-elusive Osama bin Laden has released yet another red-hot recording-this one tentatively titled ?Death to Infidels: Part 17?-vowing to rain down bloodshed and mayhem on Americans both overseas and at home. Some of bin Laden?s more captivating lyrics include the ominous warning that ?operations are under preparation and you will see them in your homes the minute they are ready...
...only moderately confident in the government?s ability to prevent an attack, as well as its ability to handle the aftermath of such an attack. And a solid majority of us think that the government should absolutely be doing more to improve homeland safety-with or without Osama issuing inflammatory warnings from his home recording studio in... wherever...
...Osama bin Laden's latest message is most notable for the long silence that preceded it-the audiotape broadcast Thursday on al-Jazeera is the Qaeda leader's first direct communication with his public in a little over a year. The voice on the tape, which the CIA has confirmed is Bin Laden's, addresses himself to the United States, warning that new attacks on U.S. soil are "in the planning stages," but offers a truce predicated on U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. "It is obvious now that Bush has been misleading the people," says the voice...
Veteran FBI agent Danny Coleman, who served for years as the bureau's ranking expert on Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri and the rest of the Qaeda inner circle, doesn't get too excited when he hears a report of Zawahiri's demise - such as the one that briefly grabbed headlines on Saturday before Pakistani officials shot it down...
Goss is concerned about the potential effects of books written by those with inside knowledge of agency operations. Citing the book Jawbreaker, by a former CIA field commander who hunted for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, and the movie Syriana, based on a retired CIA officer's book, an intelligence official says part of the worry is a possible "chilling effect" on both U.S. and foreign intelligence officials?as well as on secret assets. "You don't want people who sit down with an intel officer in confidence to be concerned it will end up in the guy's memoirs...