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...Redmond, Wash., to beat cops in Tallahassee, Fla. And in the terrifying event that the system fails and a major terrorist attack occurs, the department will be responsible for ensuring that cities and states have the resources they need to respond, whether it's adequate hospital beds or medical personnel trained to recognize smallpox...
Particularly hard hit are cities and states, which were counting on $3.5 billion from the feds for training personnel to respond to terrorist attacks. When Washington issued an orange alert last September, Detroit had to pull police from regular duty to guard the city's bridge and tunnel to Canada. Complains Karen Anderson, mayor of Minnetonka, Minn., and president of the National League of Cities: "Right now, we need more than new nameplates and organization charts...
...other regional militant groups, and with al-Qaeda funding established its own franchises, such as Laskar Jundullah headed by Agus Dwikarna, now in jail in Manila after being caught with explosives, to wage sectarian conflicts in Indonesia's Sulawesi and Maluku regions. But as increasing numbers of JI personnel are picked up, the group, like its patron al-Qaeda, is changing strategies. Last week the Canadian and Australian embassies in Manila received explicit and credible threats of terrorist attacks. Though not soft targets, these embassies are located in commercial office towers, not easily protected compounds like the U.S. embassy...
...hours later, at two a.m., the Colonel, his Chiclets and the rest of the outpost personnel are out on the Bamiyan airstrip for a resupply by parachute from a C-130 with A-10s providing air cover. And three hours after the eight pallets of supplies have been picked up and the drop zone policed, the Colonel is up again, at his desk, planning the Chiclets' next...
Paragraph eight of the resolution prohibits Iraqi forces from perpetrating “hostile acts” against U.N. personnel or member states who are acting to “uphold any Council resolution.” It has not taken long for Iraq to breach the resolution, but this can hardly be described as a material breach—and it is certainly not enough justification for a war against Iraq. Though the White House has promised to “assess and review” whether these attacks violate its zero tolerance policy, it can only come...