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Deputy FBI director Tom Pickard, 50, who has been overseeing the agency's investigation into both the September 11th terrorism attacks and the widening circle of anthrax cases, is resigning at the end of November. Pickard, a 27-year bureau veteran who supervised the prosecution of the World Trade Center bombers as well as the terrorism cases against the "blind sheik" Abdel Rahman, the East Africa embassy bombers and the perpetrators of the attack on the USS Cole in Aden, has been the FBI's chief operating officer since late 1999, when then-FBI director Louis Freeh made...
...latest admonition, like the one issued October 11th, is shrouded in vague language and frustratingly oblique parameters. Law enforcement agencies and the public are both advised to be on "highest alert," which, as many police departments are finding, is not much different than where we've been for the past month...
...course this always generates a great deal of discussion. There was some debate as to whether it was a good idea to release these warnings again. Officials got trashed by police departments after the October 11th warning because there was very little lead time and most people had no warning at all. That happened again yesterday; Ashcroft and Mueller made the announcement just before the national news...
...seem to overtake opportunities to process what's going on, not only on this side of the world but also in the United States. Ground Zero is still smoldering. Memorial services are still taking place. My own family and relatives remind me that they are constantly remembering the September 11th nightmare...
...Since September 11th, something seems to have changed, even with humanitarian assistance work. I am finding myself trying to hold on to parts of my life I had before. Sunday night, within a span of twenty minutes, I was on the phone to many people: my wife in Ethiopia (we have not been together since I left Peshawar for meetings in the U.S. on September 6th); my boss in New York City (a much-needed ear for my need to vent); my mother on a Wisconsin farm (as the past Tanzanian President Nyeri said, "you are always a child...