There are a lot of people in Washington these days claiming to be on the front lines of the war on terror.

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The terror of those moments can be heard in a recording of the 911 call in the moments after the sinkhole opened up.

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The report also takes aim at perceived gender roles, suggesting that counter-terror practices involving both sexes be reevaluated due to their basis in traditional perceptions of gender.

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No-one in Paris - or any other Western capital - wants parts of Mali to become like Afghanistan in the 1990s - a place where acts of terror further afield could be planned and where people would then ask why something was not done earlier.

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K.K. feared death with the terror of a perfectly rational man who took no comfort in religion and knew death to be his final end.

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The general's position as loyal ally in the fight against global terror was further cemented this week with the arrest in Pakistan of Abu Zubaydah, thought to be the third-ranking member of the al-Qaeda group.

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