A World of Fear                                                                                                                                                                None of us want to see people dying or being injured in senseless conflicts or in terrorist attacks. It is painful to see children dying in Africa because of genocide, starvation or epidemics. The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is also alarming. People are becoming so fearful that they hide their heads in the sand seeking escape, hoping that these problems go away. They won’t if we ignore them or leave them up to people who are not effective at solving them.  Many have become cynical and resigned.

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 To Catch a Terrorist The lead article in the New York Times on June 22nd, Inside the Interrorgation of a 9/11 Mastermind, is a great piece of journalism. In the frightening days and months after 9/11 the CIA worked desperately to capture the terrorists responsible for it and to prevent another such attack on the US. They were very successful, capturing both 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, logistics manager for Al Qaeda. This article reveals the operations of the CIA and ordinary people trying to do their work under extraordinary circumstances. Both these men were interrogated at a secret black site where they were subjected to harsh treatment and waterboarding before being moved to Guantanamo.                                                                                                                   Good Cop/Bad Cop The fascination of this article is in the interrogation details.

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