Feeling safer yet?
The United States now has fewer (and less experienced) agents on the Osama bin Laden case than it did before the 9/11 attacks, according to the former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's bin Laden unit.
The prognosis for Iraq is somewhere between not good and really, really bad, according to the CIA's latest "National Intelligence Estimate."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai survived yet another assassination attempt today; the Taliban (remember when we got rid of them?) claimed responsibility for the attack. A Taliban leader (remember when we got rid of them?) told Reuters that the radical group would continue its attempts to disrupt the elections scheduled for Oct. 9.
The U.S. may run out of National Guard and reserve troops, according to a report from the General Accounting Office -- and that's despite the "stop loss" order that now keeps active military personnel active even after they've served more time than they signed on for, in some cases sending them back to Iraq.
Kristen Breitweiser, one of the 9/11 widows who pushed, and pushed, and pushed for an independent commission to investigate the attacks despite opposition from the White House, says she doesn't feel any safer.
But George W. Bush says he's "optimistic about Iraq." Bush also insists elections will be held there as scheduled in January, but United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan admitted in an interview with the BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones that "You cannot have credible elections if the security conditions continue as they are now." Annan also called the U.S. invasion of Iraq illegal.
Meanwhile, much of the money budgeted for homeland security has either been misspent, or unspent.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:34 PM
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