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...campaign against terrorism takes place. And since the states that can be said to harbor terrorism include Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan, the broadest conceptions of such a campaign would amount to a third World War. In the short term, any military operations will be more limited in scope. As suspicion hardened in Washington that al-Qaeda ("the base"), the network of terrorists associated with bin Laden, was behind the attacks, plans began to take shape for action against its camps in Afghanistan. At the Pentagon, and at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., home of U.S. Central...
Says Morton Halperin, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations: "If you take both security and civil liberties seriously, you can find solutions that respect individual rights and privacy and still give the intelligence and law-enforcement agencies the scope that they need. We had worked that out in terms of airports. Nobody thinks you have the civil liberty to take knives on airplanes. I don't know who made the decision to let people bring knives on anyway, but it was certainly not civil libertarians...
...three places that were hit by the hijacked planes, New York City suffered by far the greatest emotional damage. As soon as the scope of the disaster became clear, grief counselors went on duty in hospitals and emergency centers around the city. The most severely shaken people were those who had been in or around the World Trade Center and survived the explosions. At least 300 of the injured immediately flooded St. Vincent's Hospital, and at least 100 of them, says orthopedist Andrew Feldman, who worked in the emergency room, were "over the top--crying, becoming belligerent, trying...
...fight terror for a living know the deal. Success is expected. Failure is intolerable. Last Tuesday was intolerable. Not just because of the volume of destruction and loss of life, but because anyone who has ever tried to keep a secret had good reason to wonder: Given the obvious scope of this terror operation--the number of perpetrators/potential leaks, the elaborateness of the preparations/potential money trails--how could thousands of spooks who supposedly had Osama bin Laden in their cross hairs for a decade miss every single moving part...
...France at times did) make civil libertarians' hair stand on end. These were necessary in part because the terrorists were not a single band of extremists, but rather a multi-layered series of cells and networks each contributing in a small way to sophisticated terror operations whose scope and magnitude is known only...