DC's wonderful weather and a punishing schedule of personal tasks have done the inevitable to me: I'm sick. Really sick. All the chicken soup in the world is not going to do what two days of rest will. I'll be back next week.
That said, I thought you may enjoy a bit of crack CT reporting in this week's Inside the Ring.
It's been three weeks since the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center issued its informative 2009 calendar, complete with a provocative mock photograph of a buffed and trimmed Osama bin Laden.
It's a "just-in-case picture" -- on the chance that the most wanted man in the world is not hiding in a cave in Pakistan's tribal region but is, instead, playing the part of a Western-style businessman traveling in suit and tie.
It's a "just-in-case picture" -- on the chance that the most wanted man in the world is not hiding in a cave in Pakistan's tribal region but is, instead, playing the part of a Western-style businessman traveling in suit and tie.
