If a terrorist is willing to be blown up in the process — and they are — we have tremendous vulnerability.

Because Control knew that belief in a scientific process only took you so far. The ziggurats of illogic erected by your average domestic terrorist as he or she bought the fertiliser or made a detonator took on their own teetering momentum and power. When those towers crashed to the earth, they still existed whole in the perpetrator’s mind, and everyone else’s too – just for different reasons.

No. What I wanted you to do was do your job of coordinating,

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

The bottom line is that the president made it clear we're in it for the long haul,

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.