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...failure to get someone running TSA is only a minor irritant so long as no major terrorist attack happens on an airplane, ship or train while the spot is vacant. But if there's no one in charge of preventing it when something does happen, it's also a political disaster that could mortally wound a President's hopes for a second term...
Back in Clayton, many wonder if there are other Hutaree members still waiting to stage an attack on police. It's certainly a concern of Sheriff Jack Welsh of Lewanee County, where Clayton is located. "It's scary," he says. Welsh has tightened security at his department's buildings, telling his troops, "Be vigilant, be aware...
...that it is - is urging lawmakers to shut down congressional cafeterias, walk to work, shut off their BlackBerries and turn off the lights. "If Congress took these four steps for one day," the Heritage Foundation says, "all members would understand the magnitude of the dangers posed by an EMP attack." (They'll also be slimmer, healthier and more mellow...
...Unfortunately, the Pentagon thinks a threat is a terrible thing to waste, so the Navy has begun studying how to protect its fleet from such an attack. "A nuclear device detonated at an altitude in excess of 40 miles generates High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), which is the focus of the U.S. Navy program," a recent Pentagon report says. Doing nothing, it warns, poses a risk "at the highest level." Hemp and high? You can't say the Navy doesn't have a sense of humor...
...However, peace didn't come to the entire North Caucasus - many insurgents simply moved over into the neighboring regions of Dagestan and Ingushetia, where terrorism attacks and assassinations continued. Then, last August, Umarov pledged to take the war to the Russian heartland, and in December he followed up on the threat, taking responsibility for a gruesome attack on a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg, which killed 27 well-to-do Russians, including three mid-level government officials. Yet the Kremlin still stuck to its normalization plan for the North Caucasus. For instance, Medvedev in January appointed a business-savvy...