Look again, with a keen eye to the difference between 'IS' and 'WAS and how the headline I referenced, never really defines which of them is being discussed.

“Today, virtually every major terrorist threat that my agency is aware of has threads back to the tribal areas” along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

what do you think he thinks is the central front in the WOT?

I think the reason is that you are writing for different audiences.

I think that's right.

You are writing for a narrower, more specialized audience.

It seemed obvious to me that the “news” was Hayden’s declaration that “Today, virtually every major terrorist threat that my agency is aware of has threads back to the tribal areas” along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. While not exactly shocking to those who have followed the news on the subject, it’s a much more sweeping statement than I’ve seen by someone in a position of authority.Interesting, almost none of the world class beat reporters covering the story led with that

What ARE they leading with...Walter Pincus at the Washington Post, for example?

CIA Chief: Iraq Not Main Front

... and that of course has been the lefty meme all along... that Iraq never WAS the core of the thing. Of course they're dead wrong in this, but never let here facts stop you. To the credit, by the way, of Pincus, he uses the words....

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday that al-Qaeda remains the single greatest threat to the United States but that Iraq is no longer the central front in the broader war on terrorism

The headline, though, which Pincus himself doubtless didn't write, meshes nicely on it's face with the meme the left has been trying all along to sell. Go ahead, gang, and tell me how we're not STILL being manipulated, here.