White house advisor: 'America's complacency is risky'.

• Author: Book, Elizabeth G.
• Position: Washington Pulse

Philip Zelikow, a member of the president's foreign intelligence advisory board, said that the United States has become complacent about al Qaeda, as it focuses on a possible war with Iraq. That approach is risky, he said. "We are in a race against time," he told a symposium sponsored by the Brookings Institution.

Zelikow was a staff member at the National Security Council during the first Bush administration. He currently is a professor at the University of Virginia.

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