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Zitat:How America can win.
the intelligence war
Departed US Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet tried to ascertain whether available intelligence justified a war, I observed last week. The late president Ronald Reagan's CIA chief, Bill Casey, knew that if you want intelligence, first you start a war.
If you ask the wrong question, you will get the wrong answer. Reagan's people had the courage to ask the right question to begin with, namely whether the Soviet system could keep pace with America's drive for strategic superiority. The diplomatic and academic establishment asked the wrong question, that is, how detente might be perpetuated with a seemingly eternal Russian empire. Was communism merely a somewhat obstreperous partner, or an enemy to be defeated?
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Zitat:Somalian Charged With Plotting To Blow Up Columbus-Area Mall.
Abdi Allegedly Received Bomb-Making Training
POSTED: 11:21 am EDT June 14, 2004
UPDATED: 7:15 pm EDT June 14, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal authorities said Monday that they have charged a man from Somalia with plotting to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall.
According to the FBI, Nuradin M. Abdi (pictured, left), a 32-year-old Somali national, was indicted and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida, and two counts of fraud and misuse of government documents.
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Zitat:French Anti-Terror Police Make Arrests
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD, Associated Press Writer
PARIS - French anti-terror police arrested 14 people, including a Muslim prayer leader, and seized guns in raids Tuesday of suspected Islamic militants in the Paris region, police said.
Police said the suspects were thought to have been involved in forging official papers. Blank documents and plastic laminating materials were found in the sweep.
Those taken into custody included at least one prayer leader, or imam, and some of his followers, police said.
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