12 January 2007: Morning By The Morning News — 12 Jan 2007 In apparent terror attack, a rocket explodes inside the U.S. embassy in Athens. U.S. officials confirm no top terror figures were killed in Somalia raids. Negroponte: Al Qaeda is rebuilding in Pakistan. It acknowledged failure, though it dodged accountability for that failure by the standard device of assuming personal responsibility. Brzezinki points to flaws in the new plan for Iraq. Condoleezza Rice's visit to Capitol Hill yesterday showed the administration had finally united Congress on the war in Iraq--though not in the way it had hoped. "When our neighbor's house was burned, I felt it was time for us to leave." Many of the neighborhoods U.S. military planners now plan to secure in Iraq have already been lost to sectarian rule. One way out of Iraq: Posing for Playboy. Protesting the former president's new book, 14 members of the Carter Center's advisory board resign their positions. Hazardous white powder discovered on envelopes in Palm Beach County Courthouse. Three black holes' convergence is "expected to be more violent and interesting." Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, precursor of punk rock, hits the century mark.
