Word: panic
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...commanders are having the last word. Precision U.S. bombing raids early in the conflict obliterated the Taliban's rear guard, which had provided reinforcements, food, ammunition and fuel to the front lines. When the U.S. began pounding front-line troops and the calls for backup went unanswered, panic began to spread...
...left to make up their own minds about how to react to government warnings. But with no solid information to divulge about the terrorists' possible methods, targets or timing, Washington risked either crying wolf one time too many or sending a nation from low-grade anxiety into full-blown panic. As a retired FBI counterterrorism official put it, "If you start warning about everything you hear, you become part of the terror, as opposed to part of the solution...
...compared with the prospect of rogue nukes. Just what bin Laden has in his stockpiles, what he plans to do with it and what can be done to stop him are rapidly becoming the most pressing questions in the anti-terror wars. "The goal of terrorism is to spread panic," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a physician and professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, who believes that al-Qaeda would try a nuclear or radiological attack if it had the capacity. "Psychologically, there are no constraints...
Finger on the Panic Button...
...event of my life. For the artwork for this album cover, we at first were thinking of an image of a kid in a department store who had lost a parent--to get at this sense not just of overpowering sadness and depression I'd been feeling but also panic, a feeling of being totally lost. I didn't want to do anything. I didn't write songs, didn't even feel like playing. I'd been living in London, at the end of a relationship. I came back and ended up living in my mother's house in Katonah...