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...students about their major isn't the most effective way to thwart global terrorism. A similar strategy was attempted during the Gulf War; it failed to yield any significant leads, but it did arouse some ill-will in the Arab-American community. Former FBI and CIA director William Webster worries about Ashcroft's prevention-first policy, warning that nothing will be gained if preemptive arrests are made before all the players in a terrorist conspiracy are identified and located. Those who escape the net will regroup--and plug the leaks that led to the arrests by killing suspected informants...
...Mueller hasn't said who will replace them, but word around the bureau is that he is considering bringing back the concept of William Webster's top management triumvirate - instead of one deputy as chief operating officer, he may name three people to roughly equal number-two slots. The idea is that a single deputy burns out too fast; Louis Freeh went through a slew of them. Also, Webster liked the triumvirate idea because it kept one person from having too much power...
...After all, the Q-word has been popping up with increasing frequency as the war in Afghanistan drags on without any bankable signs of progress. Webster's Collegiate dictionary defines a quagmire as "soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot" and as "a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position." It has been part of the U.S. political lexicon ever since it seemed an apt description of the U.S. experience in Vietnam. In the last week Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has had to devote a considerable amount of his time to explaining why it's a misnomer...
...Webster's dictionary defines terror as an "intense, overwhelming fear," and a terrorist as someone who has the ability to "instill intense fear." By that standard, the anthrax scare the past few weeks has been as powerful an act of terror as the attack on Sept. 11th. The nation was terrified by the airliners that slammed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing more than 5,000 people. The assault of anthrax-laced letters has caused insignificant casualties by comparison - three dead, a couple of people seriously ill, a handful sick but recovering, and fewer than 50 slightly tainted...
...HUPD officer arrested Stephanie Webster, age 28, of White Street in Belmont at 8 Mount Auburn St. on an outstanding warrant. A trespass complaint was also filed...