But both Kelly and Erin's superiors seem to have viewed the women under them not as comrades in arms but as threats to be countered.

WSJ: The Tyranny of the Queen Bee

And just as you have not forgotten your missing comrades, neither, ever, will we.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Honors Those Who Served on Veterans Day

"There will be those who say 'You were instrumental in coaxing out of former comrades things that would otherwise they would otherwise not have said and you made that available to the PSNI', " he said.

BBC: Boston College tapes: 'writer under no increased threat'

Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism specialist at St Andrew's University, believes western governments may have made a mistake in focusing their rhetoric too much on Mr bin Laden, instead of stressing that he heads a large, intricate network which will not disappear instantly, even if he and his immediate comrades are killed or neutralised.

ECONOMIST: The al-Qaeda network

The McCain camp, along with their right-wing media comrades, want to convince you that Obama should not have decided to serve with Ayers, who was named the Citizen of the Year in Chicago in 1987 for his education work, and who is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

CNN: Commentary: Why Ayers case is risky for McCain-Palin

Ever since then, my media comrades have tried to hold each president to this same timetable, not realizing that times are different, and the needs of the nation are different.

CNN: Commentary: Focus on first 100 days is absurd