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Lifetime may be your one-stop network when it comes to women-in-peril movies and Golden Girls reruns, but it's not the first media outlet that comes to mind when you think of geopolitics. So it's a bit surprising that the first hit drama to regularly deal with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is not 24 (which pits Jack Bauer against our mortal enemies in ... China) or The Unit (which has its special forces spending most of their time in such not-as-hot spots as ex-Soviet Georgia) but Army Wives...
Army Wives, created by Katherine Fugate, may be more effective precisely because it's a domestic drama on the network "for women"--the same reason, perhaps, that it hasn't been taken seriously enough to be controversial. There is something a little obvious--a little male, maybe--about assuming that telling truths about war has to mean showing battle. Combat is so foreign to many viewers, however, that it can actually distance the audience...
...Britain also sees a rising al-Qaeda threat, although it believes the latest attacks in London and Glasgow were more likely committed by relatively amateur groups inspired by al-Qaeda rather than by the network's own operational structures...
...Although in recent years, terror experts had believed that the U.S.-led military ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan had scattered al-Qaeda and forced it to assume a more decentralized form, there is now growing concern that Bin Laden's network has managed to regain its footing. "These groups feel somewhat freer to plot and plan along the Afghan-Pakistan border, where they have what amounts to a refuge," a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told TIME. Indeed, the central role of NATO in fighting the Taliban-Qaeda alliance in Afghanistan has also raised the incentive for the jihadists...
...Smeaton's deeds made him an action hero; his words have made him a comic one. His interviews are delivered in such a distinct Scottish idiom and accent that one Australian network provided subtitles. His most oft-quoted statements include this account of his tussle with the terrorist: "Me and other folk were just tryin' tae get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [punched] him." And this warning to future terrorists: "You're nae hitting the polis [police], mate, there's nae chance... Glasgow doesnae accept this; if you come tae Glasgow, we'll set about...