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Our Best Way Forward in Afghanistan is Out

Mary Ellen McNish | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Afghans and Americans deserve is a full, public discussion of the policy choices looming in the next weeks. We must choose to demonstrate a commitment to the rule of law, and not violence.

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Najibullah Zazi Had Senior al-Qaida Contact

AP | LOLITA BALDOR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Najibullah Zazi, NYC Terror Suspecy, Najibullah Zazi Arrest, Al Qaeda, New York News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is touting the case of an al-Qaida-linked Afghan immigrant who allegedly plotted an attack in New York as pr...

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Najibullah Zazi's Contact With Senior Al-Qaeda Officers Drew CIA's Attention

AP | LOLITA BALDOR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Muhammed Zazi, Al Qaida, Cia, Ahmad Wais Zazi, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Najibullah Zazi, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Denver, Eric Holder, Fbi, Barack Obama, Denver News

WASHINGTON — An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a s...

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Napolitano, Holder In Denver Stressing Vigilance, Cooperation Against Extremists

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security, Islamic Extremism, Janet Napolitano, Robert Mueller, Police Chief, Police, Najibullah Zazi, Justice Department, Terrorism, Eric Holder, Fbi, Al Qaeda, Denver News

DENVER — U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday stressed the importa...

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The Questions All Americans Should ask About Afghanistan

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Politics, Obama Afghanistan, Warwire, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Troops for Afghanistan, Politics News

As casualties increase in Afghanistan, public opinion has swung clearly against the war in that region. The president must make some quick decisions, and make his case to the American public.

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Najibullah Zazi: Terror Suspect Worshipped With Radical Imam

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS, DAVID CARUSO and MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 10.04.2009 | New York

Read More: NYC Terror Probe, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Najibullah Zazi, New York, New York City, Al Qaeda, New York News

NEW YORK — If he chose to listen, Najibullah Zazi could hear the calls for violence all around him. The Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a t...

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How To Kill Your Friends, Big and Small

Amjad Atallah | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Human Rights Council, War, Richard Goldstone, Russia, Fatah, Israel, Plo, Political Prisoners, Hamas, Gilad Shalit, Al Qaeda, World News

Palestinians today woke up to two news stories -- one that made them celebrate and one that made them cringe. Unfortunately, the U.S. was not involved in the celebratory story.

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White House Eyeing Narrower War Effort In Afghanistan

Washington Post | Scott Wilson and Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan Strategy, Stanley McChrystal, White House, Warwire, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Senior White House officials have begun to make the case for a policy shift in Afghanistan that would send few, if any, new combat troops to the count...

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My Hamid Karzai Daydream

Jamie Metzl | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda Pakistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Us Forces, Hillary Clinton, US Foreign Policy, Taliban Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Afghan Election, World News

Just back from Afghanistan, I began to daydream about Karzai speaking directly to the American people to take responsibility for his government's failings and seek support for U.S. engagement in the country.

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Najibullah Zazi Case Illustrates Al Qaida On Its Way Out: Analysis

Global Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: New York, Al Qaida, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, War Wire, Najibullah Zazi, Al Qaida Public Support, Al Qaida Dead, War on Terror, Obama Terrorism, Denver, Terror Muslim, Zazi, Afghanistan History, Peru's Religion, Zazi Sept 30, Al Qaeda on the Way Out, World News

By C.M. Sennott NEW YORK -- The image of Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born bus driver from Denver and now a terror suspect, embodies the ...

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A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ahmed Al-Darbi, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fbi, War on Terror, Survival Evasion Resistance Escape, World News, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, False Confessions, Cia, Sere, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabiah, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Fouad Al-Rabia, Guantanamo Bay, US Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Korean War, Sleep Deprivation, Advocacy, Torture, Politics News

The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.

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Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Strategic Bombing, Karzai, M1117, Sheriff of Nottingham, Mraps, Poppy, Afghanistan, Robin Hood, President Obama, Yugoslavia, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Iraq War, Afghan Poppy Crop, Humvees, Michael Brogin, Iraq, Opium, Belgrade, World News

I would like to propose that we consider another strategy -- strategic bombing. Take poppy fields, for example ... For once, we could be using our billion dollar bombers on billion dollar targets.

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More Fear-Mongering Claptrap from Max Boot

Malou Innocent | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Empire, Colonialism, Imperialism, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, World News

Instead of increasing troops, America should scale back its military presence. Rather than trying to protect Afghan villages from the Taliban, the United States should concentrate on al Qaeda cells in Pakistan.

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Afghanistan: Presidential Double Standards and Military Power

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, John Bolton, Pakistan, Afghan War, United Nations, Unilateralism, General David Petraeus, Operation Eagle Claw, Lebanon, China, G-20, President Lyndon Johnson, Fred Kagan, Michael O'Hanlon, Peace, Vietnam, Climate Change, Beirut Marine Bombing, Iranian Revolution, Multilateralism, President John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Isi, Terrorism, President Harry Truman, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama Doctrine, Cuban Missile Crisis, Afghanistan War, President Ronald Reagan, The Institute for the Study of War, Israel and Palestine, Kimberly Kagan, Afghanistan, Politics News

If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.

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Najibullah Zazi Bought Bomb Supplies At Beauty Stores (WATCH)

Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ny and Denver Terror Probe, Hydrogen-Peroxide, Denver Terror Cell, Najibullah Zazi, Muhammed Zazi, Al Qaeda, Denver News

Update: The AP is reporting that Najibullah Zazi has been taken by plane from Denver to New York where he will stand trial for conspiracy to use weap...

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Najibullah Zazi: Feds Searching For Terror Accomplices

AP | IVAN MORENO and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

Read More: NYC Terror Probe, Hydrogen Peroxide Bombs, Terrorists, Najibullah Zazi, Terrorism, Denver, New York, Al Qaeda, New York News

DENVER — An Afghan immigrant was on the verge of unleashing a terrorist attack on New York City on the Sept. 11 anniversary but was scared off a...

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Snake Eyes in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Mubashar Jawed Akbar, Al-Qaida, Just War Theory, Pakistan, Nir Rosen, Robert Greene, Mullah Omar, Just War Criteria, Balochistan, Drones, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, P.W. Singer, Augustine, Geoff Morrell, Nonviolence, Ambrose, Fallujah, Rethink Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, The 33 Strategies of War, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Afghanistan, Wired for War, Quetta, World News

None of the credible options in Afghanistan offer real chances for rolling back the insurgent reaction to our presence or reducing terrorism against the United States.

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Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies

AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Fbi, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Nypd, Najibullah Zazi, Arthur Folsom, Muhammed Zazi, Al Qaeda, New York, Denver, Home News

Terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has been indicted on a charge of conspiring to detonate bombs in the United States.

Zazi is to appear Thursday in court in Denver on a count of lying to terrorism investigators. The new charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction was filed in New York.

The two-page indictment offers few details, but a separate document – a government motion seeking to deny bail to the 24-year-old Afghan immigrant – lays out evidence gathered by investigators.

The document says that on Sept. 6 and 7, Zazi tried on multiple times to communicate with another individual "seeking to correct mixtures of ingredients to make explosives."

"Each communication," the papers say, was "more urgent than the last."

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Tikrit Prison: Al-Qaida-Linked Inmates Awaiting Execution Escape

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaida, Tikrit, War Wire, Al Qaida Prison, Tikrit Prison, Iraq, Iraq Prison, Iraq Prison Escape, Al Qaeda, Execution Escapees, Tikrit Al Kaida, Tikrit Prison Escape, Prison Escape Tikrit, World News

BAGHDAD — Five al-Qaida-linked prisoners awaiting execution and 11 other inmates broke out of a prison in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, p...

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Terror Investigation: Feds Investigating Najibullah Zazi's Contacts In Queens

AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ahmad Afzali, Mugammed Zazi, Denver-Colorado, New York City-New York, Najibullah Zazi, Queens New York, Fbi, Al Qaeda, Denver News

Three suspects charged in a wide-ranging terror probe are going to court in New York City and Denver.

Colorado air shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO'-lah ZAH'-zee) and his father have detention hearings later Thursday in Denver. A New York City imam, Ahmad Afzali (AKH'-mahd ahf-ZAH'-lee), has a hearing in New York City.

The three were charged last week with lying to FBI investigators trying to uncover a possible plot to detonate homemade bombs. Officials remain unsure of the scope or target of a possible terror attack.

They're casting a wide net to try and determine who might be connected to Zazi, who authorities have linked to al-Qaida. Hundreds of investigators are back at a Queens neighborhood that was the site of antiterror raids over a week ago.

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"Should More Troops Be Sent to Afghanistan? NO!"

Malou Innocent | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, World News

Our objective in Afghanistan must be narrowed to disrupting al Qaeda. To accomplish that goal, America does not need to transform Afghanistan into a stable, modern, democratic society.

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Beating Back the Democratization Backlash

Neil Hicks | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Iran, u.s. Foreign Policy, Al-Qaeda, Democracy Promotion, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, President Obama, World News

There is no necessary connection between soft-pedaling democracy promotion and advancing core American interests. Failing to advance democracy is in itself harmful to these interests.

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Al-Qaida Video Predicts Obama's Fall By Muslim Nation

AP | PAUL SCHEMM and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaida 9/11 Video, Jihad, War on Terror, Muslim Nations, Middle East, President Obama, Al Qaeda Video, Muslim, September 11th, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda, World News

CAIRO — Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new 106-minute long video predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world. ...

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9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Col. Peter Masciola, House of Representatives, Congress, David Kris, Col. Stephen Henley, World, War on Terror, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Politics News, Senate, Capt. John Murphy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Maj. David Frakt, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

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Stadiums, Hotels Warned To Watch For Terrorists

AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Transit Terror Probe, Counterterrorism, Bomb Plot, Najibullah Zazi, Security Bulletins, Terrorism, Denver, New York, Al Qaeda, Stadiums, Terrorist Attacks, New York News