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Ever wonder whether the pals you call up every now and then just to chat are really paying attention to your tired little tales? They may say "ya" and "uh-huh" at all the right intervals, but do you ever get the sneaking suspicion that they're more interested in the dishes they're doing while you're yapping away or the football game they've tactfully muted as you drone...
...military family and became an intelligence officer after college, where he studied Soviet history. Even early in his career, Ritter courted controversy. In 1991, after his first marriage - to his college sweetheart - ended, he married a Russian woman he met while posted in the former U.S.S.R. Despite initial suspicions that the translating service she worked for was being used by the Soviets to gather intelligence through "attempted sexual compromise," he satisfied himself that "this did not appear to be the case." He dismisses as "a form of harassment" what he says is an ongoing FBI probe of his wife based...
...extradition. Elsewhere, Dutch police arrested the head of a Kurdish group suspected of links with al-Qaeda, while Italian authorities took 15 suspected terrorists, believed to be Pakistanis, into custody from a ship docked in Sicily. They had pretended to be seamen, but their ignorance of navigation aroused the suspicion of the ship's captain, who diverted his vessel from Libya to Sicily. The men had false passports, along with lists of names with the annotation "about to get married" - believed to be a code used for a terrorist who is about to attack. U.S. Ultimatum...
What all this adds up to is a strong suspicion that we are not doing too little about terrorism: we are probably doing too much. Our initial instincts are overly risk averse; the danger probably looms larger than it should. A crazed terrorist's next move is going to be a surprise: the burdens we impose on ourselves out of hindsight from the last episode are unlikely to be the ones hindsight will recommend after the next one. We can be skeptical about the warnings of terrorism "experts." They have a psychological or even financial interest in erring...
...DETAINED. WAN YANHAI, 38, Chinese activist whose aggressive campaign to bring the country's AIDS crisis to light has long made him an object of official suspicion and surveillance; by police at an undisclosed location. A colleague at Wan's Aizhi (AIDS) Action Project reports being informed by the Ministry of State Security that Wan, who was last seen on Aug. 24 at a Beijing film screening, is under investigation for leaking "state secrets...