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...symptoms," said health czar Tommy Thompson, but who doesn't have those? We were told last week not to panic but to be prepared; to get on with our lives, even though we barely recognize them now that there are F-16s overhead and National Guardsmen at the train station. The Vice President is in the witness-protection program, and the FBI initially coded its Thursday warning of an imminent attack "skyfall." Officials were vague about the target but precise about the timing. They had "certain information" that there would be more attacks, somewhere, "over the next several days...
...Internal Revenue Service estimates these deposits are costing the U.S. alone $70 billion a year in uncollected taxes. But tax havens, with their anonymity and lax oversight, aren't just for tax cheats. They're also an ideal financial way station for terrorists, who want to park money out of sight until they need it to pay for training camps or to pull off an attack...
...journalists were taken to a part of the airfield where a radar station had been hit by a cruise missile and turned into ashes. In an interview with TIME, Mullah Kabir explained that he wanted the journalists to visit both military and civilian targets and compare the damage. "After visiting the airport and the Khrum village where about 200 innocent people were killed, you can judge that we have suffered more civilian than military losses," he argued...
...this time, CNN is not on the frontlines. This time, America does not have a monopoly on information. Instead, the role of the world’s primary information gatherer has been thrust upon al-Jazeera-a Qatar-based, Arabic-language satellite news station-the only news station with a bureau in Kabul...
...distributing relevant information because it may or may not cause emotions to run high. The limp excuse that bin Laden might be transmitting his messages over Fox News ignores the fact that terrorists have many easier means of communication—and in any case, the independent Arabic-language station Al Jazeera is available via satellite. The networks were not broadcasting troop movements, but videos and images of significant public importance, and they should not be pressured into keeping such information...