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To: jlallen who wrote (83050)8/4/2007 11:22:06 AM
From: Orcastraiter  Respond to of 93284
 
Chertoff: Terrorist attack risk on the rise
Homeland security chief has ‘gut feeling’ al-Qaida will target U.S. this summer
By E.A. TORRIERO - Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — The United States faces a heightened chance of a terror attack this summer, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in Chicago on Tuesday.

“I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk,” Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board in an unusually blunt and frank assessment of America’s terror threat level.

“Summertime seems to be appealing to them,” he said of al-Qaida. “We do worry that they are rebuilding their activities.”



To: jlallen who wrote (83050)8/4/2007 11:42:15 AM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 93284
 
US notches world's highest incarceration rate
A report highlights extent to which many citizens have served time in prison.

By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a new report by the Justice Department released Sunday. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world.