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Obama In Flux

William Bradley | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda, Tony Blair Dmitri Medvedev, Iran, Singapore, Democratic Party of Japan, Pakistan, 9/11, Korea, Russia, Taliban, Palestine, Israel, Nobel Peace Prize, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Asia, Barack Obama, European Union, World News
William Bradley

As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.

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Civilian Trials for Terrorists Highlight Differences Between Presidents

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Islam, Law, Muslim, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Terrorism, Bin Laden, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Brian Levin, J.D.

For Obama, the ability to showcase our justice system in a case involving one of the world's most reviled accused terrorists represents an important opportunity to define America before history and the world.

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Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Stanley McChrystal, The Nation, Boston Globe, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, World News
Robert Naiman

Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome? There is something very Captain R...

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Blast At Spy Agency In NW Pakistan Kills Seven

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Peshawar, Jihad, Peshawar Bombing, Terrorism, Pakistan, Taliban, South Waziristan, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...

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Paying Peter to Kill Paul

Jon Soltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Private Contractors, Blackwater, Afghanistan, President Obama, Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Contractors, Xe, Taliban, Triple Canopy, Breaking News, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, World News
Jon Soltz

American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.

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Afghanistan: Buckle Your Seat Belts

Michael Brenner | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Stanley McChrystal, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Taliban, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, World News
Michael Brenner

Rarely has a great power so willfully set itself down the path of self-destruction with so little reason as America has in Afghanistan. This is pathological behavior that cries out for diagnosis and correction.

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News
David A. Love

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Mujahedeen, Berlin Wall, Al-Qaeda, United States in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Superpower, Ussr, Cold War, Moscow, Taliban, War on Terror, Soviet Union, World News
Loretta Napoleoni

Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.

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Anthrax Scare: Suspicious Powder Sent To French, Austrian, Uzbekistan Consulates

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Foreign Consulates, Austrian Consulate, Anthrax Scare, Nypd, French Consulate, Anthrax, Uzbekistan Consulate, Suspicious Powder, Al Qaeda, New York News

NEW YORK — Envelopes containing suspicious powder were sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan on Monday, but initial tests suggested the ...

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Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, Us, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

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The Ft. Hood Massacre: A Lone-Wolf Jihad of One?

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Lone Wolf Terrorists, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Ft Hood Shooting, Army, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Brian Levin, J.D.

The horrific shooting at Fort Hood, allegedly by Nidal Malik Hasan, a disgruntled yet devout Army psychiatrist, puts the spotlight back on the lone-wolf offender who sits at the crossroads of crime, terrorism and mental distress.

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Is the United States Gearing Up to Go Into Pakistan?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, James Jones, Pakistan, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Afpak, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

While it may be too early to tell whether Obama will follow through on his 2007 campaign pledge, it does seem like his administration is setting the stage.

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A Muslim Soldier's View from Fort Hood

Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Quran, Afganistan, Islam, Fort Hood, Military, Iraq, Terrorism, Major-Nidal-Malik-Hasan, Suicide Bombers, American Muslims, Al Qaeda, Fort Hood Shootings, Fort Hood News, Major Hasan, Death American Muslim Soldiers in Iraq, Muslim Soldiers, Fort Hood Muslim, Major Malik Hasan, What Happened in Fort Hood, What Happened at Fort Hood?, Fort, Muslim Soldier Goes Crazy at Fort Hood, Fort Hood Solider, Anwar Al Awlaki, World News
Kamran Pasha

I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.

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The Taliban's Ties to Al-Qaeda

Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al-Qaida, Taliban, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News
Will Marshall

How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.

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Was Hillary's Image-Boosting Exercise in Pakistan a Success?

Saad Khan | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: Hillary Pakistan, Kerry-Lugar Bill, Peshawar Bombing, Pakistan Corruption, Pakistan Army, Taliban, Pakistan Aid, South Waziristan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, World News
Saad Khan

If the United States wants to win some hearts in Pakistan, its aid should go to organizations directly working for public health and education. It's time to engage with the common Pakistani.

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Jason Linkins

Al-Qaeda Publishes "Dense Little Bastard Of A Magazine"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, Al Qaeda Magazine, Media News

Al Qaeda, apparently heedless of the recessionary downturn that's felled so many publications in the freedom-loving world, is currently publishing a pair of magazines. If print media doesn't die, it could kill you!

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"Pretend Secrecy" Shields the White House from a Drone Missile Debate

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Esquire, US Drone Missiles, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, Taliban, Drones, Al Qaeda, Freedom Forward, World News
Sanjeev Bery

It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.

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Obama Faces Revolt From Generals Over Strategy In Afghanistan

Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, White House, Afghanistan, Obama War in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Troop Levels, General David Petraeus, Obama, Joe Biden, Taliban, Sen. John McCain, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Obama's War, Biden, Insurgency, The-Institute-for-the-Study-of-War, Counterinsurgency Field Manual, Petraeus, General Stanley McChrystal, Counterinsurgency, Us Troops Afghanistan, Politics News

In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...

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Matthew Hoh: U.S. Has Lost Track of Why It Is in Afghanistan

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Taliban, Matthew Hoh, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, World News
Steve Clemons

The first U.S. government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war.

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Islamist Terrorists Take Page From US Hate Groups' Internet PlayBook

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Jihadists, Al-Qaeda, White Supremacists, Pakistan, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Internet, Tom Metzger, Hate Groups, Youtube, Afpak, Myspace, War on Terrorism, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Islamist terrorist arrests across this country since last January run the gamut. White and black, young and middle-aged, single and married, homegrown and foreign born, and legal and illegal immigrants.

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My Exclusive Interview with Ken Guest -- Journalist/Analyst on Afghanistan (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Obama Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, Tribes, Afghan President Karzai, Pushtun Tribes, Afghanistan, President Barack Obama, Pakistan, President Obama, Hamid Karzai US Criticism, Tribal, President Karzai, Obama, Afghanistan Tribal Areas, Karzai, Afghanistan War, Tribal Militias Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Afghan Taliban, Karzai Election, Ken Guest, Peter Galbraith, Taliban, World News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.

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White House Giving Karzai Six Months To Shape Up

New York Times | David E. Sanger | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, President Obama Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, War in Afghanistan, President Obama Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan Runoff Election, President Obama, Hamid Karzai Afghan Runoff, Afghanistan Runoff, Afghanistan Corruption, President Obama Afghan Runoff, Obama Afghan Strategy, President Obama Al Qaeda, Hamid Karzai, Politics News

With the White House's reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama n...

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Hillary Clinton Has Intense Exchange With Students In Pakistan

news.aol.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Al Qaida, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, Al Qaeda, Politics News

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan squandered opportunities over the years to kill or capture leaders of the a...

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