[M]ost terrorism is a form of educated, middle class politics, this particular group clearly grew out of the grievances and resentments of race and class inequality in the United States.

June 25, 2006 -- NEW ORLEANS - Asian tsunami-relief workers touring New Orleans yesterday were shocked by the devastation and slow pace of recovery nearly 10 months after Hurricane Katrina struck. The relief workers were in New Orleans to share information about recovering from disasters. "It looked a lot like Aceh six months after the tsunami," said Tom Kerr of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights. The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 and left 43,000 missing. Katrina killed more than 1,500 in Louisiana. "I'm surprised to see why the reconstruction work is so slow, because this is supposed to be one of the most rich and efficient countries in the world," said Thai community organizer Somsook Boonyabancha.

When are the DoJ and FBI going to arrest Ann Coulter for domestic terrorism operations? While she has only fantasized publicly about bombing the building that houses the NY Times, and having John Murtha murdered.

What is this? Is it gang up on Kos time?

The trouble is, there are alot of Roves.

Many Afghans and some foreign supporters say they are losing faith in President Hamid Karzai's government, which is besieged by an escalating insurgency and endemic corruption and is unable to protect or administer large areas of the country.

"There is an awful feeling that everything is lurching downward," said a Western diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Nearly five years on, there is no rule of law, no accountability. The Afghans know it is all a charade, and they see us as not only complicit but actively involved. You cannot fight a terror war and build a weak state at the same time, and it was a terrible mistake to think we could."

More proof of AQ and Saddam link... WMD For a complete re-cap surf over to the weekly standard.

This has come out of things like articles in The Weekly Standard and so on. It's basically laundry lists of raw reporting in which if you make certain inferences. There's some kind of connection. There was a phone call made, or there was a meeting held. Indeed, there were some meetings held back early in the 1990s between individuals associated with the Saddam regime [and] individuals associated with Al Qaeda. They were mainly in the nature of feeling each other out, certainly nothing that came close to an alliance or a sponsorship or cooperative relationship. But in the world of international terrorism, ... it's possible to link just about anyone to just about anyone else. If you dig hard enough for enough circumstantial reporting, meetings, phone calls, names that come up in the same breath, travel to the same place at about the same time, you and I could be seen to have a relationship, probably, if someone worked hard enough at linking us through such things like that. That's very different from forming an analytic judgment about what is the nature of the relationship we had. ... It becomes very easy to use raw reporting to try to make the case that there is a substantial relationship, losing sight of the fact that relationships can be ones of suspicion or even competition, as well as ones of cooperation. In the case of the one we're talking about, Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, [it] was more the former: suspicion of feeling each other out.

"Certainly nobody is going to deny First Amendment rights. But the New York Times and other news organizations ought to think long and hard about whether a public's right to know in some cases might override somebody's right to live," Snow said.