With religious exemptions in place, Saland voted his conscience Plus September still looms, post-barrier Bil'in, and more in the news Plus a dispatch from the flotilla, the properly sized bagel, and more  | |  Al-Qaida cell phones confirmed Pakistani complicity in the hiding of Osama Bin Laden. That country's military and intelligence patronage of terrorism requires the United States to take a harder line there. BY BRUCE RIEDEL The May 1 commando strike in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Osama Bin Laden demonstrated one thing conclusively: that the United States cannot rely on Pakistan to deal with the al-Qaida threat. We don't know for sure yet if the Pakistani intelligence service, or ISI, was clueless or actively complicit in hiding the most wanted man in the world, who was living a mile down the road from the Kakul military academy, the country's West Point. In either case the ISI is not a reliable or effective counter-terrorist partner. More  | Volunteer "airport ambassadors," mostly women in their 70s, are the first to welcome you to Palm Beach International Airport. Betty Sussman is one of them. More |  | The state of the Jewish state: Activists, artists, and academics—including Jeremy Ben-Ami, Udi Aloni, and Albert Einstein—argue about Israel More | |
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