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Moynihan, a former four-term Democratic senator from New York who was a professor of government at Harvard, said the United States government needs to take active steps to combat terrorism...
...federal agencies, which employ nearly 170,000 people, consume close to $37.5 billion a year and answer to 88 congressional committees and subcommittees. The various offices and agencies grew up, each with its own history, in bygone eras with concerns that now seem almost quaint: the Secret Service, to combat counterfeiters; the Customs Service, to collect tariffs; the Coast Guard, to prevent smuggling. But in the post-9/11 world, the threat has a different face. "Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us," President Bush said Thursday night, "and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently...
...Washington will continue to provide the Filipinos with military training. The program had been slated to terminate July 31, but Pentagon officials expect the advisers to stay put. Although no Americans were directly involved in the mission (the Philippine constitution bars foreign troops from combat inside the country), local military officials credit the Americans with helping to track the rebels to southern Mindanao about two weeks ago, following intelligence reports that they had left their former base on nearby Basilan Island...
...Number of countries that have been cited by the State Department for not doing enough to combat the trafficking of human beings--Greece and Russia are among the U.S. allies that made the list...
...Washington will continue to provide the Filipinos with military training. The program had been slated to terminate July 31, but Pentagon officials expect the advisers to stay put. Although no Americans were directly involved in the mission (the Philippine constitution bars foreign troops from combat inside the country), local military officials credit the Americans with helping to track the rebels to southern Mindanao about two weeks ago, following intelligence reports that they had left their former base on nearby Basilan Island...