Some objected on security grounds to a trial in New York City — as if the city isn't already a terrorist target, as if its courthouse hasn't handled a long line of mafia dons, drug trafficking kingpins and even terrorists, with far less disruption than the annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Kenya, where some companies are scouting, has experienced terrorist attacks.Firms with less mobile labour forces will try to boost productivity growth in the rich world, which has lagged in recent years.
The United States has often been willing to punish lesser nations when they step over the line into support for terrorist acts, often with less evidence of their involvement in specific acts than was the case with the Khobar Towers bombing.
These revisions in the so-called prohibited items list reflect the T.S.A.'s evolving strategy of focusing more on identifying terrorists with bombs and less on things in carry-on bags like small pocketknives or, say, hockey sticks.
But the most urgent question of all is what to do about it, and whether the United States should continue to invest in a Pakistani military whose assurances that it does not work with terrorists carry less weight than ever.
"Associating Muslims in this country with terrorists is nothing less than McCarthyism.
And the original rationale for going to war in Afghanistan -- taking on al Qaeda -- has been accomplished, with less than 100 members of the terrorist group still there.
[C15.] Further Turmoil for E-Commerce With the terrorist attacks less than three weeks in the past and with little but uncertainty ahead, e-commerce executives are struggling to steer their businesses through waters that were already rough to begin with.
To analysts, the new generation of terrorists are less ideological than 17 November, more nationalist and more likely to be linked with organised crime.
