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Guest host: Andrea Seabrook
New intelligence reports and the Bush administration warn that al Qaida has rebuilt its operational capabilities out of Pakistan and that it poses a growing threat to the United States.
Daniel Benjamin, senior fellow of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; served on President Clinton's National Security Council; coauthor, "The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right"
Kamran Bokhari, director of Middle East analysis, Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
Peter Brookes, senior fellow for national security affairs at the Heritage Foundation; former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs in the Bush administration; author, "A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, WMD and Rogue States."
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Daily Telegraph
author of "Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia" Yale University Press
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Guest host: Andrea Seabrook
The movie is out. The seventh and last book comes on July 21. We discuss why millions of people have been following the story of a boy wizard named Harry Potter for the past decade and what it says about our society.
Nancy Pearl, author of "Book Crush," "Book Lust," and "More Book Lust." She lectures widely on books and reading and can regularly be heard on NPR's Morning Edition.
Desson Thomson, movie critic for the Washington Post
Jennie Levine, curator for historical manuscripts at the University of Maryland Libraries and headmistress of the Sugar Quill, a Harry Potter fan site.
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