[Tolik]

His fresh article:

What We Knew…and Didn't Do
			Posted by optimistically_conservative On News/Activism 04/17/2004 7:14:38 PM EDT with 12 comments Reader's Digest ^ | April 13, 2004 | Kenneth Timmerman In 1997-1998, I became aware of clearly observable warnings of hostile terrorist intentions against America, by Osama bin Laden. For over eighteen months -- as part of an investigation for Reader's Digest -- I had been learning from a variety of former U.S. intelligence officers and foreign sources about a vast, world wide network of Islamist radicals, who had emerged from the U.S.-backed war to drive the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. At their head was the shadowy Saudi renegade, Osama bin Laden, whom his followers referred to as the "Prince of Jihad." What made bin Laden unusual was his background....

[Tolik]

PING

[cwb]

While the death of any US soldier is a horrendous loss, we have to remember that for over a decade now, US diplomats, missionaries, business people, etc., have been losing their lives around the world to these same people.

It's nice to see the media's concern for every soldier lost in Iraq...but maybe if the media paid as much attention to these US citizens who were losing their lives, we could've took the enemy more serious. Lives are expected to be lost in a time of war; the fact that we were losing them in a time of supposed peace...and the media didn't care, then, tells you something about the media.