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Article: Thwarted plots.(The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack)(Book review)
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- Policy Review
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- April 1, 2008
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RONALD KESSLER. The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack. CROWN FORUM. 272 PAGES. $26.95
IN THE YEARS since 9/11, as elections have come and gone and come again, as the war in Iraq has raged and calmed, and even as congressmen have summoned government officials before their committees to testify on torture and wiretapping, one crucial fact seems occasionally to have been lost in the shuffle: That the United States is engaged, at home and abroad, through military and other means, in battle with an enemy with a murderous ideology that is intent on our destruction. The urgency the vast majority of Americans felt in fending off this ...