More fallout from Bob Woodward's new book State of Denial. He reported that CIA director George Tenet told the 9/11 Commission that he'd warned Condi Rice, then Dubya's national security adviser, on July 10, 2001 that a 9/11-like event might be in the pipeline.

Condi angrily denies ever being told there was an imminent threat to U.S. soil. She even questions whether the meeting ever happened, although Bush administration officials say it did. Nobody liked Woodward's characterization of the situation, namely that Tenet left feeling mildly blown off.

The worst part of it: Two soldiers died and five more were wounded in an attack in Panjwai district -- the district where NATO claimed its troops had killed more than 500 Taliban and supposedly broken the back of the insurgency.

Trouble is, in a Sept. 18 Graeme Smith story for The Globe and Mail (HL: 'Taliban vow to retake Panjwai redoubt') after success was declared, Smith quoted one Taliban member as saying that many fighters simply buried their weapons and blended back into civilian life there.

One might conclude that in this type of war, you're never really done fighting. And you never really know who your enemy is. :(