Sunday, July 24, 2005

Many Bombs but Links Are Unclear / New York Times, 24 Jul 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/international/middleeast/24sharm.html?th&emc=th
Douglas Jehl
"'The looser the operational connections become and the less Islamist terrorism is instigated by a single figure, the harder it will be to uncover exploitable links and the more likely that the instigators of future terrorist attacks will escape the notice of U.S. intelligence,' Mr. Pillar wrote last year in an article that appeared in The Washington Quarterly, an academic journal. 'In a more decentralized network, these individuals will go unnoticed not because data on analysts' screens are misinterpreted but because they will never appear on those screens in the first place.'"