#2 Officials and outside analysts said they tend to be in their mid-30s and have years of battlefield experience fighting in places like Afghanistan and Chechnya.
Have we learned anything from the next generation CIA? And finding the leadership is one thing but we also have to look for the new generation of terrorists amongst us. Even alert citizens are not looking for Muslims from the Balkans and Chechnya. A lot of 30-something Russian/Eastern European-looking males running around Las Vegas, for example. How hard would it be to blow a RR chemical tanker at the base of several hotels with thousands of rooms all in a very compact area? Just mentioning it 'cuz the NYT seems to be fishing for something else to blame Bush policy for. |