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BAKERSFIELD - Terrorism and the battle to fight it did not begin on Sept. 11, 2001, and the battle will not be quickly or easily won. That was the message of Robert Gates, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to his audience at Saturday's Bakersfield Business Conference. "Terror is a global challenge that will take many years and many forms to defeat," Gates said. "What amazes me is how long it took for us to react to terror against us." The only officer in CIA history to rise from entry-level employee to director, Gates served as director from November...

By Patrick Sawer, Evening Standard 29 November 2002 Two of 12 suspects being held in connection with the terrorist attack which killed 15 at a Kenyan hotel were using US passports, it was claimed today. The manager of a hotel where the man and woman were staying when the suicide bombers devastated the Mombasa Paradise today revealed the pair were from Florida. Ben Wafula, general manager of Le Soleil Beach Club, said: "They had American passports and they said they were from Florida." It came as the bodies of the Israeli victims were flown home today. The dead were identified...