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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

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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U.S. Sends Paparazzi to Find Bin Laden

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Hamid Karzai, Andy Borowitz, Paparazzi, Tmz, Afghanistan, George Clooney, Lake Como, Osama Bin Laden, Comedy News

In a bold new strategy designed to locate the world's most wanted man, the United States today dispatched a team of paparazzi to find Osama bin Laden.

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Afghanistan, Again: The Thicket Obama's Not Getting Out Of

William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee Wants an Exit Strategy out of Afghanistan

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Congresswoman Barbara Lee gained international acclaim for being the only member in Congress who courageously voted against the authorization of the use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Osama Bin Laden Revealed In New Video? See The Screengrabs And Vote (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 10.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Bin Laden Video, Slideshow, Danger Room, Bin Laden Pictures, As-Sahab, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Home News

On Tuesday night, Al Qaeda's media unit released a video of a sermon by Abu Yahya al-Libi, the terrorist group's star proselytizer. As Wired's Danger...

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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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Actually, Mr. Cheney...

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Cheney, 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Actually, Mr. Cheney, what hurts troops is bad judgment--particularly when exercised by an overzealous, power-hungry, maniacal Vice President like you.

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To al-Qaeda's Cheers: Dick Cheney Is Running, Will Be the 2012 Republican Nominee

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Presidential Nomination 2012, Al-Qaeda, Vice-President 2012, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Barring illness, Dick Cheney will be the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012. Of course, the media will yap away about the chances of anyone in the Republican Party who does not cheat on their spouse or have gay sex.

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Lies Drive the Afghan War

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: 9/11, Afghanistan, Pashtun, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, World News

The claim that al-Qaida will reuse Afghanistan as a giant base camp, like Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction, is a handy slogan to market the war to the public.

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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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AP sources: al-Qaida's Afghan head contacted Zazi

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and BRETT BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Najibullah Zazi, Afghanistan, Denver, Aurora Colorado, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Osama Bin Laden, Fbi, Cia, Al-Jazeera, Denver-Colorado, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, New York City, New York-New York, Peshawar-Pakistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Home News

NEW YORK — The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press.

Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian reputed to be one of the founders of the terrorist network, used a middleman to contact Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi as the 24-year-old man hatched a plot to use homemade backpack bombs, perhaps on the city's mass transit system, the two intelligence officials said.

Intelligence officials declined to discuss the nature of the contact or whether al-Yazid contacted Zazi to offer simple encouragement or help with the bombing plot prosecutors say Zazi was pursuing.

Al-Yazid's contact with Zazi indicates that al-Qaida leadership took an intense interest in what U.S. officials have called one of the most serious terrorism threats crafted on U.S. soil since the 9/11 attacks.

"Zazi working with the al-Qaida core is exceptionally alarming," said Daniel Bynam of the Brookings Institution's Saban Center. "The al-Qaida core is capable of far more effective terrorist attacks than jihadist terrorists acting on their own, and coordination with the core also enables bin Laden to choose the timing to maximize the benefit to his organization."

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Did Bush Screw Up Afghanistan Worse Than Iraq?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Vietnam, Iraq, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Here's what you can't argue with - Bush did not try at all in Afghanistan. He didn't give a damn. 26,000 troops -- are you kidding me?

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Al-Qaida Showing Smaller Presence In Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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KABUL — Al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war. Gone is the once-formidable network of camps and safe houses where O...

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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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Billions In U.S. Aid To Pakistan Never Reached Army, Generals Say

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The United States has long suspected that much of the billions of dollars it has sent Pakistan to battle militants has bee...

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2009 | 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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Terror Threats In Germany Prompt Flight Ban Over Oktoberfest

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Germany Elections, Terror Threats Germany, Germany Terrorism, Oktoberfest, Joachim Herrmann, Germany, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, World News

BERLIN — German authorities banned all flights over Munich's annual Oktoberfest beer festival on Saturday after a series of Islamic terror threa...

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Bin Laden Tape: Europe Must Pull Out Of Afghanistan Or Risk "Retaliation"

AP | OMAR SINAN | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Osama bin Laden demanded that European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan in a new audiotape Friday, warning of "retaliation...

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Snake Eyes in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.24.2009 | 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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The Ghosts of Vietnam Haunt Washington

Eric Margolis | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

Read More: Stlaney McChrystal, Military, War in Vietnam, Moscow, Osama Bin Laden, Vietnam War, Mullah Omar, Taliban, Congress, Mike Mullen, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Tet Offensive, World News

The American general Stanley McChrystal's news that America risks losing Afghanistan is a bombshell. Washington has spent some $250 billion there since 2001.

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Somalia: Rebels Vow Allegiance To Osama Bin Laden (VIDEO)

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 09.22.2009 | World

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Islamic insurgent group that controls much of this lawless nation has released a video showing its members vowing alleg...

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Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, John Bellinger, Jane Mayer, Cia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Sleep Deprivation, Torture, Gitmo, World News

Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.

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Obama and Al Qaeda: New Moves Show Success May Not Depend On Afghanistan

William Bradley | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Yemen, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Dick Cheney, Northern Alliance, Somalia, Iraq, Yasir Arafat, Hamid Karzai, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Osama bin Laden's lame 9/11 message and Barack Obama's lethal approach in Somalia raise a central question: Are we not in fact much closer to achieving our central goal in Afghanistan than most imagine?

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Osama Bin Laden Sounds Weak Even Auto-Tuned

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

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The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman made good on his promise to Auto-Tune Osama bin Laden's latest diss track to Western Civilization. And w...

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What 'Bin Laden' Is Saying About Glenn Beck

Beau Friedlander | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: The War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, The War in Afghanistan, Birthers, Megan Carpentier, Tea Baggers, Town Hall, Joe Wilson, Fox News, Maureen Dowd, Glenn Beck, Politics News

Osama bin Laden, if that was him (doesn't matter if it was just a garden-variety US-hater), pointed out that the president is vulnerable. What did he mean?

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