A Counter-Terrorism Strategy Report Card
David Cole and Jules Lobel, authors of "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror," have an article in the November 18 edition of the Los Angeles Times that provides "a report card on what the administration's counter-terrorism strategy has achieved, and what it has cost."
Cole and Lobel point out that the number of terrorist attacks worldwide has increased from approximately 1,700 in 2001 to nearly 6,600 in 2006. During that same time, of the nearly 84,000 U.S. foreign residents who complied with domestic registration programs targeting immigrants from Arab and Muslim countries (as of December 2003), not a single one has been convicted of a terrorist crime (as of June 2006). They add that no Al Qaeda cells have been discovered in the U.S. since 9/11.
Follow the links for more information about their book, an article adapted from the book, and a radio interview with David Cole.