Word: terrorized
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...last week's Cabinet meeting, the President shrugged and said he didn't think the leaker would be caught. His apparent nonchalance is outrageous. Plame was integral to the CIA's effort to suss out the movement of weapons of mass destruction--ground zero in the war on terror...
...Philippines Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is Bush's staunch ally in the War on Terror. Her presidency is also threatened by a restive Philippine military. We've seen this play before: during a coup attempt against former President Corazon Aquino in 1989, the first President Bush ordered U.S. warplanes to buzz the skies over Manila in order to show that the U.S. was against the mutineers...
...wrath of the superpower has not been considered a prudent political course even among the radical Islamist Palestinians, not least because of the impact this would have in the Arab world. Even many of the Arab regimes that have support the U.S. war on al-Qaeda still see Palestinian terror attacks on Israeli civilians as a legitimate tactic of resistance to occupation, and have avoided lumping groups such as Hamas together with Bin Laden's networks. The U.S. had already persuaded European and Arab governments to crack down on these organizations, but after the Gaza bombing the pressure...
...politics is disarray, the ability of the PA to carry out an effective crackdown is far from certain even if PA leaders find the political will - and until now, the political consensus in the PA is that the radical groups have to be persuaded, by national consensus, to end terror attacks...
...Gaza attack is also a reminder of the dangerous fracturing of centralized command and control among Palestinian terror cells. Even during the ill-fated "hudna" cease-fire negotiated between the PA and representatives of Hamas, JI and the al-Aksa Brigades, it was clear that localized cells - such as the Hamas operatives in Hebron and some of the Al-Aksa structures in the northern West Bank, which Israeli intelligence believes had been penetrated by elements from Hezbollah - retained the capability and the intent to violently veto agreements reached by their political leadership. The attack in Gaza may be a sign...