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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Is Iraq Helping or Hurting the War on Terror?

President Bush has declassified about three pages of a 30-page National Intelligence Estimate saying the Iraq war is a "cause celebre" that has has helped produce a new generation of Islamic radicals and increased the threat of terrorism. It also says that if the jihadists appear to have lost in Iraq, fewer will be inspired to keep fighting. The President says selected portions of the NIE were leaked to reporters for political reasons. We hear how Democrats and Republicans are interpreting the report less than six weeks before the November elections. Different parties drew different conclusions about how to proceed in Iraq. Is President Bush right that the US is winning?" Is it time to pull out? Are there any good options left?

  • Making News: Bullish Market Pushes Dow toward Record
    The stock market is taking a lot of Wall Street regulars by surprise. Instead of declining in recent weeks, as some had predicted, the Down Jones Industrial Average is close to its highest finish on record. Will it break 12,000?
  • Reporter's Notebook: Cancellation of Idomeneo Enrages Germans
    One of the "key judgments" of the partly declassified National Intelligence Estimate is that "jihadists regard Europe as an important venue for attacking Western interests." But Berlin's opera company has sparked bitter controversy by canceling an opera which might be offensive to Muslims. In Idomeneo, Mozart suggests that religion -- any religion -- can produce superstition and inhumanity.

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Making News: Bullish Market Pushes Dow toward Record

E.S. Browning

Stock Market Reporter and Columnist for the Wall Street Journal

Guests:

Mark Mazzetti

Reporter at the New York Times' Washington Bureau

Joe Wilson

Republican Congressman for the 2nd District of South Carolina, member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities, and Co-chair of the Victory in Iraq Caucus

Jane Harman

Congresswoman for the 36th District in California and Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee

Joseph Cirincione

Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank

Justine A. Rosenthal

Director of the Council on Global Terrorism

Reporter's Notebook:

Cancellation of Idomeneo Enrages Germans

Kristiana Peitz

Editor of the Culture Department for Der Tagesspiegel


links

Dow Jones Index
Declassified Key Judgments of the April, 2006 NIE on trends in global terrorism (from NYT)
Mazzetti's article on President's release of excerpts from National Intelligence Estimate
Military Commission Act of 2006 (S 3930)
Idemeneo, the story of (Metropolitan Opera)
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Der Tagesspiegel on cancellation of Idomeneo (in German)

 

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