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...inside. Terror on this scale is meant to wreck the way we live our lives--make us flinch when a siren sounds, jump when a door slams and think twice before deciding whether we really have to take a plane. If we falter, they win, even if they never plant another bomb. So after the early helplessness--What can I do? I've already given blood--people started to realize that what they could do was exactly, as precisely as possible, whatever they would have done if all this hadn't happened...
...that occasion, the Clinton Administration launched cruise-missile strikes on the Afghan camps as well as on an alleged nerve-gas plant in Sudan. The attacks were widely dismissed as doing nothing more than burning a few tents, though a senior Clinton Administration counterterrorism official claims that bin Laden "almost got killed." Whatever happens this time will be a lot bigger--though it will likely fall short of a full-scale invasion. The last army to march successfully through Afghanistan was led by Alexander the Great. In 1842, when a British expeditionary force of 17,000 was forced to retreat...
...accomplices plant knives on the doomed planes? Perhaps not, but there remains the general problem of lost or misplaced identification badges that give workers access to restricted areas. They often end up in the wrong hands. Two were stolen in April, for instance, from the Rome hotel rooms of an American Airlines pilot and flight attendant. Under current guidelines, authorities have to report the disappearance of a badge or reissue all cards only if 5% of the total vanish, which means that at a major airport like Logan, 600 have got to be missing before anything has to be done...
...have to believe that protecting my body from rape is more important than a rubber tree plant,” she wrote, referring to the theft of a plant in Quincy House that has been blamed on all-night access to residents of other Houses...
...likelier is an attack on a nuclear power plant with conventional explosives--a fact recognized by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which has staged mock commando raids on U.S. plants for years. Alarmingly, these war-game assaults have often succeeded, sometimes "releasing" more radiation than Chernobyl (an accident, it's worth remembering, that by some estimates caused 30,000 deaths...