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Five days after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, CIA Director George Tenet gathered his senior spies in a conference room at the agency?s Langley, Va., headquarters and passed out copies of a top-secret memo he?d just drafted. "We?re at war," the memo announced. The CIA?s mission now was "to neutralize and destroy al Qaeda and its partners" around the world. "All the rules have changed...
...bomb the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. Students were asked to learn all about demolition, artillery and light-weapon use, but they were also expected to be familiar with the fatwas of al-Qaeda, including those that called for violence against Muslim rulers who contradicted Islam-a basic Takfiri tenet. French terrorism expert Jacquard describes Takfiri indoctrination this way: "Takfir is like a sect: once you're in, you never get out. The Takfir rely on brainwashing and an extreme regime of discipline to weed out the weak links and ensure loyalty and obedience from those taken as members...
...director George Tenet in trouble? Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, for one, is lobbying for the CIA director?s removal, telling reporters last week, "I believe there have been too many failures on his watch...
...think Tenet will last. Mueller will be okay because he?s new. I don?t think that?s necessarily fair - this was a system-wide failure. But it?s just the way things work...
...logically, she is a feminist. One of the most radical ideas of 1970’s feminism, which is still at the core of almost all feminism today, was that women’s position in society is socially, not biologically, determined. This was, and still is, a fundamental tenet of almost anything that calls itself feminism...