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Re-Creating Creation, Take 2: The Large Hadron Collider Fires Up Again

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Holger Bech Nielsen, Big Bang, Lhc, Brian Cox, France, The Big Bang Theory, Cern, Physics, Higgs Boson, Walter Wagner, Al Qaeda, Niels Bohr, Tim Berners-Lee, Black Hole, Switzerland, Strangelets, God, Large Hadron Collider, Universe, Albert Einstein, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

Birds dropping baguettes, terrorist plots and nuclear critics have all tried to derail the Large Hadron Collider, but if all goes according to plan it will be re-creating the Big Bang in no time.

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Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, Al Qaeda, Israel, Palestine, Cia, Pakistan, European Union, Cool Britannia, Britain, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, World News
William Bradley

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed And The Death Penalty: Why We Can't Kill Him

Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: September 11, 9/11 Trials, Al-Qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11, Death Penalty, 9-11 Mastermind, New York, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

There is no solving the problem of mass murder. We can only hope to move past it, and perhaps that the spiritual and emotional wounds of 9/11 will turn into the proud flesh of a new humanist outlook.

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Increasing Number Of Web Sites Spread Al-Qaida's Message In English

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR and LEE KEATH | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Internet, NEFA Foundation, Evan Kohlmann, Al Qaida, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Abdulmanam Almushawah, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, World News

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate ...

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Afghanistan: No Good Alternatives

Ryan McDermott | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Iraq, Economy, Barack Obama, Terrorism, September 11th, Al Qaeda, World News
Ryan McDermott

It might have seemed unfathomable back in 2001 to think that this war would have gone on so long, but here we are eight years in and no end in sight.

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Resume the Mission

Gary Hart | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

Read More: Foriegn Policy, Taliban, Bush Administration, General Mcchrystal, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, World News
Gary Hart

The more plausible alternative in Afghanistan is to resume the original limited mission, the one that took us there eight long years ago.

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U.S. Ports Still Wide Open to Nukes, Report Says

Jeff Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Nuclear Detector, Nuclear Weapons, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, Gao, Port Security, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism, Border Security, Al Qaeda, World News
Jeff Stein

Over $3 billion and seven years since U.S. intelligence discovered that Osama Bin Laden was seeking a nuke, terrorists can still drive a radioactive truck through the holes in America's border defenses

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The New Strategy for Obama's War: Precision Power

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurgency, Obama's War Afghanistan, President Obama, President Obama Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Waziristan, American Military, Taliban, War on Terror, Politics News
Mayhill Fowler

There is nothing like the convergence of two equally unpleasant scenarios -- in this case the danger in Pakistan and American forces settling further into Afghanistan -- to sharpen a leader's mind.

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Guantanamo Detainees: Colorado Officials Say They Haven't Been Contacted About Housing Inmates

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Colorado Supermax, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Al-Qaeda, Evan Dreyer, Justice Department, Bill Ritter, Eric Holder, Denver News

DENVER — Colorado officials say they haven't been contacted by the federal government regarding housing detainees from Guantanamo Bay in the sta...

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If This Is War, What Are We Doing?

Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Capital Punishment, Fort Hood, Ksm, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nidal Malik Hasan, Death Penalty, September 11th, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Denver News
Craig Alan Silverman

The government's easier path toward execution is through a tribunal, and yet Holder has chosen the risky path of seeking the death penalty in New York. This is political correctness run amok.

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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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