The process starts on the intelligence-gathering side, where a tremendous flood of information pours into the National Counterterrorism Center, a clearinghouse agency created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and run by the director of national intelligence.

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While the rebels were pushed back deep into their jungle strongholds, they have continued to carry out hit-and-run attacks and numerous high-profile kidnappings.

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Outside Kabul, too, Taliban leaders may have decided to swap set-piece battles for hit-and-run attacks.

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Spam, phishing and website attacks are often run through these botnets.

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But the expected onslaught from the home side failed to materialise and Bolton's diligent defence coped well with Tottenham's laboured attacks and looked set to end a run of five straight away defeats.

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It has also crucially gone on offense, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Yemen and North Africa, keeping foreign terrorists on the run and making it harder to plot attacks on the U.S. homeland.

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The disorders run the gamut from panic attacks and specific phobias to obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, a random kind of worry described as free-floating and relentless.

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The two presidential hopefuls, who decry the influence of money in the political system and the power of "special interests, " say they believe that politics is a "noble profession, " and they talk about their desire to run "different" campaigns that avoid "negative attacks" on their opponents.

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Ellis points out that while the NCTC numbers are up by 200 percent from its numbers of 2004, another database run by the Rand Institute shows an 86 percent jump in attacks from 2004 to 2005, and it hasn't changed the way it defines terrorism, although it uses more restrictive terms than the NCTC.

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