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During World War II, people were exhorted to knit socks for our soldiers. REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR. PURL HARDER, the posters said. The War on Terror poses a special challenge, as it's difficult to make the public feel involved--no tinfoil collections, no sacrifice of silk stockings to make parachutes, no national meatless days. After Sept. 11, the President told people to go shopping. This time officials actually provided a list. "We have to give people something to do," Ridge told lawmakers, which is how duct tape officially became a staple, like flashlights and Band-Aids. This week Ridge will...
...letters taking advantage of the war on terror may be new, but the basic scheme goes back to the early 1980s, when it first started to emerge in Nigeria. Named after this West African country, the “Nigeria scam” presents itself as a way to steal millions of dollars from disorganized, foreign governments. Its myriad permutations all follow a general pattern: an unsolicited e-mail arrives from a stranger claiming to be a government official, usually in Nigeria. He has come across ten to 60 million dollars that are unaccounted for in the government?...
...case too far? A congressional aide who has received classified intelligence briefings told TIME there are still "mixed views" inside the CIA about a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. But Powell seemed to be trying to underscore risks more than prove certainties. "The nexus of poisons and terror is new," Powell said. "The nexus of Iraq and terror is old." The U.S. is edging closer to concluding that war is the only way to rip them apart. --By Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by Joshua Kucera/Serget and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Daniels blurted the real Bush strategy last week: "There is not enough money in the galaxy to protect ... every American against every conceivable threat that every hateful fanatic in the world might conjure up. So the real essence of homeland security is going to be, No. 1, go after terror where it lives...
...when a 200-kg car bomb planted by Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas ripped through the club's 11 stories, killing 35 people - including six children at a piñata party - and injuring 173. The El Nogal blast was the most devastating attack of the rebels' new urban terror campaign and the first to hit the capital's élite. Londoño and Colombian authorities hope the attack will prompt the world to change tactics too, and regard Colombia's guerrillas as terrorists. Reason: police say the guerrillas are aided by terror groups like the I.R.A. and Spain...