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• Sept. 11: 'A failure of imagination'
  The Sept. 11 commission's final report recommended the creation of a new intelligence center and high-level intelligence director to improve the nation's ability to disrupt future terrorist attacks. The panel also determined the "most important failure" leading to the Sept. 11 attacks "was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat."July 22, 2004
• Lapses in intelligence
  The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States has released its final report. We'll talk with the local FBI agent who was one of the first people to bring to light intelligence lapses leading up to September 11, 2001.July 22, 2004
• Is Iran the enemy?
  Iran's ruling mullahs say they're resuming activities that could lead to development of a uranium-based bomb. And the Sept. 11 commission concludes that Iran gave al Qaeda hijackers safe passage. Washington is considering tough new policies to punish the Islamic Republic, but some say the lack of engagement with Iran threatens U.S. interests.July 22, 2004
• Reporting from Iraq
  Midmorning takes a look at how one reporter is covering Iraq, perhaps the biggest on-going story for more than a year.July 20, 2004
• MPR Poll: Minnesota voters divided about Iraq
  A new poll shows Minnesotans continue to be divided about the war in Iraq and its aftermath. The Minnesota Public Radio-St. Paul Pioneer Press poll finds no overwhelming consensus on whether the U.S. intervention will make things better in Iraq, and whether it will improve the United States' standing in the world.July 20, 2004
• The history of the 9-11 commission
  The final written report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission) is expected the week of July 19, 2004. In anticipation of this historic report, NPR News has produced a one-hour special on the history of the commission.July 19, 2004
• Senate committee issues scathing report on Iraq intelligence
  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the information that America went to war with last year was flawed. And the panel's vice chairman says Congress never would have backed the Iraq war if lawmakers knew then what they know now. The panel has released a report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq, saying many intelligence assessments were exaggerated or flat-out wrong.July 9, 2004
• Senate report finds U.S. overplayed Iraq threat
  A report from the Senate Intelligence Committee blasts CIA director George Tenet for prewar assessments of Iraqi weapons. The 500-page document says U.S. intelligence agencies gave inflated or wrong conclusions before the Iraq war.July 9, 2004
• Minneapolis terror suspect indicted for alleged false statements
  A man who said he attended an al-Qaida training camp was indicted on two counts of making false statements to federal agents investigating the shipment of radios and other equipment to Pakistan, prosecutors announced Thursday. The indictment against Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi, 41 -- a Minneapolis resident of Lebanese origin -- was sealed pending his arrival in Minnesota earlier Thursday. He will be in court Friday.July 8, 2004
• Al-Qaida may try to disrupt elections with attack, Ridge says
  The United States is tightening security in the face of a steady stream of intelligence indicating al-Qaida may seek to mount an attack aimed at disrupting elections, the White House said. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said the Bush administration based its decision to bolster security on "credible" reports about al-Qaida's plans, as well as recent terrorist activity in Europe.July 8, 2004
• Does the army have enough troops?
  With the Pentagon calling 5,600 honorably discharged soldiers back to duty, there have been rumblings on Web sites and op-ed pages about the return of the draft. The government denies that any such plans are in the offing, but many military experts say that the reserve system needs serious reform if it is going to effectively prosecute the War on Terrorism.July 7, 2004
• U.S. military faces recruiting and retention challenges
  Armed forces recruiting and retention are running strong now, but Department of Defense officials say they expect some challenges ahead.July 7, 2004
• David Kay at the Commonwealth Club
  David Kay, the former U.N. chief weapons inspector who was sent to Iraq in 2003 to find Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction arsenal, touched off a political firestorm when he later told Congress that the weapons simply were not there. "We were almost all wrong," he said. "There were no stockpiles of WMD when the U.S. went to war." Kay is now talking about other long-term dangers to national security. He spoke in June at the Commonwealth Club of California.July 6, 2004
• The Sudan situation
  Kofi Annan and Colin Powell this week delivered stern warnings to the Sudanese government, which they say is responsible for displacing more than a million people since 2003. It is believed that the death toll from Sudan's crackdown on two Darfur rebel groups that year now well exceeds 10,000.July 2, 2004
• Back in Iraq after 27 years away
  Abbas Mehdi is back from Iraq after his first visit home in twenty-seven years. He was an early critic of Saddam Hussein and fled the country in 1977, eventually settling in Minnesota. He is an American citizen now, but is preparing to make another visit yet this summer. He is one of 1,000 Iraqis who have been invited to participate in a conference in July, where they will elect the 100-member Iraqi Governing Council. He talks about his recent visit to Iraq and what he sees in the country's future.June 30, 2004

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