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It's only a few days to the deadline...and that would mean a petition etc. Would that be possible at this late date?? Nice dream!
Depends what one considers a "front". The terrorist 'front in so called 'palestinian territories was always ther, it's called Hamas. Does one or two terrorists fleeing Iraq and going to Israel and joining up with Hamas constitute a front? Ditto for Algeria and Egypt.
"On Iran, the CIA comes up short on two interconnected issues: derailing Iran’s nuclear program with the help of local surrogates which, given the millions of expatriate Iranian exiles who detest the clerical regime, should pose fewer difficulties than penetrating al Qaeda."
Nice armchair generaling. But reality is something different. Iranians can't even get near these heavily guarded sites, and there aren't peasants milling around selling tomatoes from donkey carts in front of them either. Planting operatives within the regime is no easy task. I'm sure they will call everyone you list on your resume'.
Some people have a far too simplistic view of things.
>>US Secret Service Embattled<<
I'd have more confidence in this story if they actually knew what the Secret Service was.
Most interesting is DEBKA's ignorance of the terms used in the US government. "Secret Service" is not the ususal US term for the CIA. The Secret Service is a Treasury Department agency that guards the money and the president (in some order of priority.) "Secret Service" is a Europeanism; not wrong to use the term, but not very good journalism when referring to the US. DEBKA's reliability is somewhere between the Star and the Weekly World News.