Sunday, August 17, 2003

RESEARCHERS ON TERROR WARN ANOTHER SEPT 11 LIKELY "The United States is highly likely to face another attack similar to September 11 within the next 12 months, a London-based research organization said on Sunday. "America is the number one target for many terrorist groups," said Guy Dunn, author of a report by the World Markets Research Center (WMRC) assessing the risk of terror attacks in 186 countries around the globe. "Networks of militant Islamist groups are less extensive in the U.S. than they are in Western Europe, but U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan and Iraq has exacerbated anti-U.S. sentiment," Dunn told Reuters. "Another September 11 style terrorist attack in the United States is highly likely," he said. Reuters Via Yahoo News 5:03:33 PM    Permission To Speak Freely []

US TRIES TO LAY DOWN LAW ON IRAQ "Marine Capt. Sean Dunn spent almost a month cajoling courthouse officials in Al Kut for a detailed inventory of what they needed. He expected a laundry list, squabbles over financing and groans from his superior officers when he presented what he was sure would be a tome. "So after weeks of this," Dunn said, "I get one piece of paper from Chief Judge Jahwher Mahood saying, 'I need a Thuraya phone, a car, a refrigerator and a TV.' And I said, 'I see, so these are the needs of a court system for 1 million people and some 200 employees?' " The preposterous, personal nature of the request underlines some of the problems coalition forces face, and not just in Wassit province, southeast of Baghdad, where the New Orleans-headquartered 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines are in charge. Throughout Iraq, as the nation cracks through the totalitarian shell Saddam Hussein spent decades building, a reliable, trustworthy system of law and order is essentially being built from scratch..." New Orleans Times-Picayune  4:54:35 PM    Permission To Speak Freely []