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Al Qaida

An Interview With Matthew Hoh

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaida, Rethink Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, Coin, Richard Holbrooke, Matthew Hoh, Taliban, Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, World News
Derrick Crowe

If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the United States' predicament in Afghanistan, it's that the presence of our ground combat troops is not doing anything to defeat al Qaeda.

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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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Pakistan Courthouse Bombing Kills 16 In Peshawar

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Peshawar, Pakistan Army, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Suicide Bombing, Pakistan, North West Frontier Province, Taliban, South Waziristan, Zardari, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwe...

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Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail

Conn Hallinan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Al Qaida, Afghanistan Surge, Troops Afghanistan, Taliban, War on Terror, Politics News
Conn Hallinan

McChrystal argues that the current situation is "critical," and that an escalation "will be decisive." But as former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst A.J. Rossmiller says, the war is a stalemate.

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Frank Rich: The Missing Link Between Fort Hood And The War In Afghanistan

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Islam, Afghanistan War, Terrorist Attack, Homeland Security, Fort Hood, Kabul, Obama, Media, Afghan War, Lieberman, Hoekstra, White House, Al-Qaida, Killeen, Liberal Media, Joseph Lieberman, Ft. Hood, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Troop Levels, Joe Lieberman, Democrats, Army, Democratic Party, Taliban, Nidal Hasan, Muslim, Peter Hoekstra, Republicans, Politics News

For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...

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Colin Powell To Obama On Afghanistan Troop Decision: "Take Your Time"

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Karzai, Handover, Afghanistan, Exit Strategy, Troop Levels, Pakistan, Timeline, Kabul, Afghanistan Strategy, Obama, Taliban, Withdrawal, Foreign Policy, Mcchrystal, White House, Al Qaida, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Tom Joyner, Afghanistan Decision, Politics News

In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...

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An Open Letter to President Obama About Afghanistan From William R. Polk

The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Afghanistan War, Nato, Afghan Election, Tribes, Durand Line, Kabul, Middle East, Taliban, Policy, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Chicago, Afghan Strategy, Un, South Waziristan, Soviet Union, Pentagon, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Troop Levels, Terrorism, Pashtun, Foreign Policy, Kashmir, Insurgency, Al Qaida, State Department, Pashtunwali, Soviet Afghan War, Counterinsurgency, World News

I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...

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Nidal Hasan Tried To Contact Al Qaida, US Officials Knew Months Ago

Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Nidal Hasan Fort Hood, Nidal Hasan, Al Qaida, Nidal Hasan Al Qaida, Fort Hood Shooting, Fort Hood, Anwar Al Awlaki, World News

ABC News is reporting that U.S. agencies were aware months ago that Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sought to contact people associa...

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Pakistan Suicide Bomb Kills 12: Mayor Targeted In Attack On Peshawar Suburb

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Peshwar, Suicide Bomb, World, Pakistan Security, Al Qaida, Eid, Pakistan, Suicide Bombing, Terrorism, Pakistani Security, Adazi, Taliban, Peshwar Market, South Waziristan, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a market in northwest Pakistan crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, ...

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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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Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Robert Scheer, Insurgency, David Axelrod, Lyndon Johnson, Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh, Al-Qaida, Vietnam, Democracy, Hamid Karzai, Stanley McChrystal, Soviet Union, World News
Robert Scheer

The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.

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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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Omar Bin Laden, Osama's Son: I Don't Know Where Dad Is

TIME | Andrew Lee Butters Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Al-Qaida, Osama Bin Laden Message, Taliban, Omar Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Omar Bin Laden Huffingtonpost, Bin Laden Son, World News

For Omar Bin Laden, the fourth eldest of Osama bin Laden's 20 known children, the awful realization that his own father was a terrorist mastermind plo...

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Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistani Army, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mir Ali, Taliban, Nukes, Pakistan Army, Nuclear Weapons, Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistani Police, Waziristan, Swat Valley, Al-Qaida, Taliban Swat Valley, South Waziristan, Pakistan Police, Wana, Sarwaki, World News

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

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Najibullah Zazi Terror Case: Suspect Had Contact With Al Qaeda Founder, Osama Bin Laden's Leader In Afghanistan

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York

Read More: NYC Terror Probe, Najibullah Zazi Terror Probe, Al Qaida, Terrorism, Najibullah Zazi, Osama Bin Laden, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Al Qaeda, New York News

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Pakistani Gunmen Attack Federal Building In Pakistan (IMAGES, VIDEO)

AP | BABAR DOGAR and MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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LAHORE, Pakistan -- "AP"; Teams of gunmen launched coordinated attacks on three law enforcement facilities in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore...

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Pro-Afghan War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaida Ties: Analysis

Inter Press Service | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...

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French Charge 'Big Bang' Scientist

AP | NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Switzerland, Al-Qaida, Al Queda, Al Qaida, France, Cern, Big Bang Theory Terrorist Scientist, Particle Scientist France, World News

PARIS — A French investigating judge has filed preliminary charges against a physicist at the world's largest atom smasher who is suspected of a...

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French Arrest Physicist At "Big Bang" Lab Because Of Al-Qaida Link

AP | ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Switzerland, Al-Qaeda, Al-Q, Al Qaida, France, Cern, Al-Qaida, Big Bang Lab, Al Qaeda, World News

GENEVA — A physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, adding to the woes of the ...

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Al-Qaeda's New Tactics Leaves Saudi Scared

washingtonpost.com | Sudarsan Raghavan | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Mohammed Bin Nayef, Obama Saudi Arabia, Al-Qaeda, Mohammed-Bin-Nayef, Al Qaida, Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, Prince-Mohammed-Bin-Nayef, Saudi Arabia, Al-Qaida, Al Qaeda, World News

The bomb was hidden inside the al-Qaeda assassin's body, and he arrived on his target's personal plane. ...

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