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...built them up as a useful tool in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, then turned away when the war ended. A sizable portion of ISI rank and file embraces Islamic fundamentalism, and even if the top brass promise help, spooks on the ground may thwart them by withholding information or spreading disinformation. "The ISI has excellent intelligence about bin Laden," says a former Defense specialist on the region. "I find it doubtful they will give...
...terrorists ruined lower Manhattan, where a mass grave still smolders, but they haven't conquered New York City. Giuliani, of all people, should see that wanting to restore the city means having its election go on as planned. Term limits are undemocratic and thwart the will of the people, but democracy requires that people get rid of limits in due course, not in a move by the state legislature for the benefit...
...terrorists ruined lower Manhattan, where a mass grave still smolders, but they haven't conquered New York City. Giuliani, of all people, should see that wanting to restore the city means having its election go on as planned. Term limits are undemocratic and thwart the will of the people, but democracy requires that people get rid of limits in due course, not in a move by the state legislature for the benefit...
...through that speech without showing more emotion. There was one time when I think he looked out and saw some tears, and that got to him. I know that I could not have looked up at the woman in the gallery, the wife of the man who tried to thwart a hijacker, without breaking up. What I can do these days is kind of put my arm around him from hundreds of miles away...
...combination of these laws and human-level intelligence gathering (infiltration and interrogation of suspects) helped France successfully uproot terrorist networks in the mid-1990s and to thwart outrages planned during the 1998 soccer World Cup. Casting the net wide revealed that many people police had previously assumed were simply petty crooks had actually been thugging for the Islamists...