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...Bush Administration announces its new cabinet nominees, a committee of Harvard professors and other legal experts released a report yesterday they said hopefully would provide guidance for future legislation on counter-terrorist efforts...
...last three years we’ve been in a sprint [on counter-terrorism legislation]. If the terrorist threat is going to continue to exist we need to think about the marathon,” Kayyem said...
...going to war in Iraq had “crumbled,” (with the notable exception of humanitarian purposes) in your staff editorial “Falluja Under Fire” (Nov. 12) the Crimson Staff made the claim that it found, “no plausible terrorist ties.” However, upon taking Baghdad, our troops found Iraq to be harboring Abu Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist who hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 and killed a wheelchair-bound American named Leon Klinghoffer. He was killed presumably for being Jewish and his shipmates were forced...
Iraq, by most accounts, continues to disintegrate. In the week before the U.S. election, an Iraqi national security aide to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi allowed that 5% of the recently trained Iraqi troops were probably terrorist infiltrators. "I love David Petraeus," a retired four-star general told me, referring to the U.S. officer in charge of training the Iraqi force. "But you can't train a soldier in six weeks. And you can't motivate a soldier who doesn't have a real government to fight for. It might change for the better if we can hold credible elections...
Should Americans be aware of potential terrorist activity? Of course. But we must understand that it is the policies of our government, not the mindless jealousy of fanatics, that make us the object of attacks. Sure, let's beef up domestic security, but let's also have some serious and honest dialogue about the reasons we need it. Diatribes about irrational enemies feed unthinking fear and obscure any hope of real solutions...