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Despite setbacks, al-Qaida remains a potent threat. In mid-August, the U.S. intelligence community's senior ranking terrorism analyst concluded that while increased counterterrorism efforts worldwide have constrained the ability of al-Qaida to attack the United States and its allies, the group "remains the most serious terrorist threat to the United States." As recently thwarted terrorist plots in Britain, Germany and elsewhere make clear, seven years after 9/11 we remain in a heightened threat environment. But the nature of the transnational threats facing the world today is far different than the ones the United States and its allies faced on 9/11. While...

VALDOSTA, Ga., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. today celebrates the grand opening of the fifth store to open under the Little Caesars Veterans Program as U.S. military veteran and Little Caesars franchisee Patricia Evans opens her doors for business at 1650 F Baytree Road in Valdosta, Georgia. "The Little Caesars Veterans Program has provided me the opportunity to transition to a new career as my family and I begin the next chapter in our lives," said Evans. "I am proud to be the first woman to open a store under this program, and I'm excited to be...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2007 – When he returned home from an 11-month deployment to Iraq in October 2005, Army Staff Sgt. John Reid realized he’d stashed away a sizeable sum of cash and wanted to put it to work for himself. “I didn’t want to waste it on a new car or something like that,” said the New York National Guardsman, who spent five years on active duty before joining the Guard in 1989. Instead, Reid decided to invest in his own business. He attended a franchise expo, ultimately buying a Glass Doctor franchise in Somerset, N.J. Only when...

TAMPA - Anyone watching local cable TV recently may have noticed a curious infomercial. A tall, handsome spokesman was trumpeting the rewards of owning a Quiznos Sub franchise. Be your own boss, the pitchman kept reiterating. Set your own schedule. Enjoy independence as a business owner. Denver-based Quiznos is following up its infomercial with a series of seminars at Tampa Bay area hotels this week, hoping to interest potential franchise owners. But behind the scenes, there is turmoil among some Quiznos franchisees here and across North America. According to a Tampa Tribune analysis, 80 percent of Quiznos restaurants in Hillsborough...

How al-Qa'ida has split into dozens of autonomous, hard-to-find 'franchises' By Kim Sengupta 22 November 2003 The Afghan war was meant to deprive al-Qa'ida of the protection of its Taliban allies and destroy it as a fighting force. But the Istanbul bombings are the latest example of how the organisation has reinvented itself to continue its jihad. Al-Qai'da has proved to be a many-headed hydra. One was decapitated in Afghanistan, with many of Osama bin Laden's senior lieutenants killed or captured, and much of its financial resources uncovered and blocked. But the organisation has now sprung up again in a...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The deal was all but done. Until it suddenly went as cold as a day-old cup of coffee. After months of negotiations, Bethesda, Md.-based HMS Host Corp. struck an agreement to replace the struggling business center at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport with a Starbucks. The business center had generated about $5,000 a year for the City of Austin's coffers. The Starbucks deal was for $64,000 annually for eight years. Starbucks even agreed to stray from its corporate standards by designing the shop with a noticeable Austin ambiance. Current airport tenants had first...