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...news came as a jolt to all of Asia: proof positive that terrorists not only had their eye on the region, but that they have accelerated their plans after Sept. 11. Even more stunning was the news that a sleeper cell was activated in Singapore, one of the most tightly controlled countries in the region. True, Singapore is resolutely pro-U.S. and offers plenty of American targets. It has a predominantly Muslim Malay minority, yet its members are anything but radical...
...course, the turning of the tide is not the end of the war. This is the invasion of Normandy; we must still enter Berlin. The terrorists still have part of their infrastructure. They still have their sleeper cells. They can still, if they acquire weapons of mass destruction, inflict unimaginable damage and death. Which is why eradicating the other centers of terrorism is so urgent...
Writing children's books is like directing. Everyone wants to try it. And there were plenty of good efforts this year. But so your favorite small reading partner doesn't end up getting the same ones over and over, here are six sleeper beauties...
...Qaeda plot to turn a chlorine or liquid-gas truck into a bomb on wheels capable of killing tens of thousands. The men turned out not to be terrorist linked. But with Osama bin Laden vowing to use weapons of mass destruction in the U.S. and claiming he has sleeper cells in place, it's hard to argue that the Haz-Mat 22 weren't worth some intense scrutiny...
...shadow detentions. At first Ashcroft claimed that the detainees' identities were being kept secret for their own benefit--to prevent the creation of a McCarthy-style blacklist. When that explanation was widely derided, the Justice Department offered a new justification: that some of the detainees were members of "sleeper cells" and that law enforcement did not want to tell the enemy which of its agents were out of commission. "We might as well mail this list to the Osama bin Laden al-Qaeda network as to release it," Ashcroft said...