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Pakistan Is Still 'Heart' of Al-Qaida

(Jan. 20) – The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound flight may have increased the visibility of the Yemen-based wing of Al Qaida, but Pakistan's tribal area remains the terrorist organization's strongest base of support, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said today. "I would still say the...

What Intelligence Analysts Didn't Do in Airliner Plot

(Jan. 7) -- It's not that intelligence analysts couldn't connect the dots in the failed Christmas bombing plot. It's that they didn't try hard enough to do so. That, in essence, was the conclusion of a White House review of why the attack wasn't discovered and stopped before it fizzled in the skies above Detroit. The...

Opinion: Obama Missteps on Airport Security

(Jan. 5) – In confronting the aftermath of the Christmas bombing plot, President Obama is surely discovering one thing: It isn't easy being George Bush. In its reaction to the failed attacks, the Obama administration has responded with many of the same panicked measures that were seen in the Bush response after...

Left Unsaid: How to Connect the Terrorism Dots

(Jan. 5) -- When President Barack Obama declared that U.S. intelligence must do more to identify potential terror threats, he left out one key detail: just how the government will piece together future plots in time to foil them. After meeting with his top national security advisers, Obama said Tuesday that the...

Obama: 'Other Red Flags' in Christmas Plot

WASHINGTON (Jan. 5) – Intelligence agencies knew of "other red flags" and had "sufficient information" to disrupt the Christmas Day bomb plot but "failed to connect the dots," President Barack Obama said today after meeting with his national security team at the White House. Despite expectations that Obama would...