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The U.S. ambassador to Ankara put a multi-billion-dollar aid package to Turkey on the line on Tuesday… “Without the agreement there is no financial package,” U.S. ambassador Robert Pearson told reporters after talks with Prime Minister Abdullah Gul in the capital.
- from Reuters

Using Al Qaeda’s state-of-the-art “Blue Collar Suburban Neighbor” disguise, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed hid in plain sight for months up until his capture yesterday. He was easily the most glamorous of Al Qaeda’s senior leadership, prompting one U.S. intelligence official to remark, “Yikes.”

[Photo: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - Al Qaeda’s millionaire playboy
with “a taste for the […]

To: All employees
From: Secretary Tom Ridge (your Boss!)
Well, it’s been a long few months, but the Department of Homeland Security is now fully operational.
Thanks to you all, the organizational strategy that we laid out in November has been fully implemented (see previous memo for details), and we’ve even got a website in […]