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Mike Shuster, diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent, answers questions about the strength and persistent impact of the terrorist organization al Qaeda nearly four years after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Hospital administrators at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center saw a doctor filling syringes with painkillers and heard plans to give lethal doses to patients unable to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina hit. The eyewitness testimony is documented in court documents not yet made public.

NPR National Security Correspondent Jackie Northam answers questions about the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the detainees from the war on terror who are held there.

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President Bush visits the Gulf Coast again, pledging to help clean up the region. Also, Vice Admiral Thad Allen, director of federal relief efforts, discusses plans being developed for Hurricane Rita, damage to New Orleans' levee system and clashes with Mayor Ray Nagin.

Gov. Jeb Bush has ordered doctors to resume tube feeding a brain-damaged woman in Florida who is at the center of a bitter right-to-die battle between her parents and her husband. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on this challenge to long established medical and legal rulings.

Bradford Berenson is a lawyer who served in the White House counsel's office and helped form policy on the capture and imprisonment of detainees. He argues that the Guantanamo Bay detention center should stay open.

When Monica and Scott Fink got married, he was a phone company employee who spent one weekend a month in the National Guard. And then he was sent to Iraq. Scott Fink returned home this week, and Debbie Elliott has the first of a series following the Finks as they get used to life on the home front.

Robert Siegel talks with Hugh Pope of the Wall Street Journal about his latest book, Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World. Pope follows the history of the Turkic people — an ethnic group covering some 140 million people in Central Asia.

Archaeologists are on a mission to unearth the history of the Olympic Games in Nemea, Greece. The project looks back some 2,700 years, when athletes competed much like they do today -- only in the nude, and barefoot. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for the NPR/National Geographic co-production Radio Expeditions.