SYDNEY Jones listed 164 missed calls on her cellphone on that Black Friday last week. It was not that she refused to answer them, but she was constantly on the telephone on the day the JW Marriott Hotel was bombed for the second time, and the Ritz-Carlton was hit for the first time.

The next day, Jones quoted information from a report prepared by the International Crisis Group—where she currently works as a senior advisor—and published las