Troops Deployed To Persian Gulf, starting with air force controllers. By the way, the ‘war on terrorism’ is called ‘Operation Infinite Justice.’

Attorney General Ascroft says that it is “pretty clear” that a “variety of foreign governments” were involved in supporting and protecting what he describes as “the networks that conduct these kind of events”; he’s not mentioning names but the incipient meme is of Iraqi involvement. Hard to know how to evaluate this new ‘spin’, since suspicions that Dubya means to finish off Bush Sr.’s Desert Storm project abound. TheBostonChannel