My Lunch With Felix — By Kevin Drum | Fri Mar. 26, 2010 6:48 PM PDT Here’s a random assortment of topics from my lunch with Felix Salmon today at Eat Chow in Costa Mesa. He had the shrimp tostada and I had the swordfish, with olives and truffle parmesan fries on the side. Enjoy….
An American charged with helping plan the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, moved effortlessly between the United States, Pakistan and India for nearly seven years, training at a militant camp in Pakistan on five occasions, according to a plea agreement released by the Justice Department last week. The odyssey of David C. Headley, 49,…
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I’ll be the first one to tell you: BlackBook is an awesome place to work, and Chris Mohney is among the most awesome people in New York you can work for, of which we all know are few in their numbers. And I’m not just saying this because he’s advised my career so well (“you’ll…
Story Highlights Bin Laden threatens Americans Al-Qaeda leader says any captured Americans to be killed if 9/11 “mastermind” is executed. Bin Laden warns US of more attacks Bin Laden deplores climate change Bin Laden claims plane bombing News CENTRAL/S. ASIA Bin Laden threatens Americans Osama bin Laden has in a new audio recording threatened to…
Pakistan’s War of Choice By MICHAEL E. O’HANLON Peshawar, Pakistan WHAT are Americans to make of all the good news coming out of Pakistan in recent weeks? First, the Afghan Taliban’s military chief, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was arrested in a raid in February. Around the same time, several of the Taliban’s “shadow governors” who…
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Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world’s most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: March 23, 2010 President Obama’s winning passage of national health care is both exhilarating and sobering. Covering so many uninsured Americans is a historic achievement. But the president had to postpone trips, buy off companies and cut every conceivable side deal to just barely make it happen, without a single…