Word: scared
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Webster's dictionary defines terror as an "intense, overwhelming fear," and a terrorist as someone who has the ability to "instill intense fear." By that standard, the anthrax scare the past few weeks has been as powerful an act of terror as the attack on Sept. 11th. The nation was terrified by the airliners that slammed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing more than 5,000 people. The assault of anthrax-laced letters has caused insignificant casualties by comparison - three dead, a couple of people seriously ill, a handful sick but recovering, and fewer than 50 slightly tainted...
...Minority Leader Dick Gephardt looked the worst last week, recessing their chamber early so technicians could sweep their side of the Capitol complex for traces of anthrax. They're still furious at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received the anthrax- laced letter but announced that terrorists wouldn't scare the Senate into recessing early. (Hastert and Gephardt insist that Daschle reneged on an agreement the House and Senate leaders had at the beginning of last week to quit early. Daschle insists he never made such an agreement. Just for the record, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott is standing behind...
...well be tempted to hit the nation's media--which manage to embody both freedom and excess. Is al-Qaeda trying to panic U.S. journalists into doing the terrorists' work for them, spreading the fear that has now hit them where they work? Addressing the possibility that the anthrax scare is a follow-up to the attack on the World Trade Center, Vice President Dick Cheney wondered aloud, "Are they related? We don't know. We don't have enough evidence to be able to pin down that kind of connection. But...we have to be suspicious...
...there's anything even halfway reassuring about the anthrax scare, it's that tiny doses sent through the mail can cause only isolated outbreaks. Bioterrorism experts agree that the kind of catastrophic damage haunting our collective psyche requires the resources and weaponry of a sovereign state. Which is why Iraq, the Middle East's dormant volcano, suddenly appears to be smoking at the summit...
...been in and out of the country for more than a decade, warned his classmates in a recent e-mail: "Sometime in this war I expect we will see videos of U.S. prisoners having their heads cut off." In conventional battle, the Taliban's soldiers would not scare the Army football team. Their air force is destroyed, they have few heavy weapons, and, says Ali Ahmad Jalali, a former colonel in the Afghan army, they are so undisciplined that in past battles, "they have rushed to the front line to share the glory and spoils." The U.S. Army would exploit...