Monday, June 16, 2003 :::
Newsweek reports on al-Qaeda in the U.S. It's long but compelling, and ends on the interesting note, Curiously, the best protection may be the soft power of daily life in the land of the free. One intelligence official, wondering aloud why America has not been attacked since 9-11 despite the clear intentions of bin Laden’s terror network, speculated that the sleeper agents just plain fall asleep. “A lot of these guys lose the jihadi, desert spirit,” said the official. “They get families, they get jobs, and they lose the fire in the belly. Welcome to America.”
::: posted by dWj at 4:57 PM
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