War on Terrorism

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Criminal Trial May Shine Light on Roots of Terrorism

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yosri Fouda, Zacarias Moussaoui, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, War on Terror, John Radsan, CIA Torture, Al Jazeera, War on Terrorism, Terrorism, Politics News

The most pragmatic method of determining the guilt or innocence of criminals like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has always been in criminal court. Rush Limbaugh and his ilk are very wrong about this.

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Veteran's Day: Share Your Stories And Memories

Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Death Count, President Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Global War on Terror, Veterans Day, Iraq, War on Terrorism, Video, Politics News

Veteran's Day commemorates the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, when an armistice signaling the end of World War I des...

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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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Another Homegrown Terrorism Case

Lydia Khalil | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Boston, Homegrown Terrorists, Radicalization, New York, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, War on Terrorism, Denver, World News

Just because homegrown plots constitute the majority of those uncovered doesn't mean that homegrown terrorism is the greatest threat.

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American Foreign Policy Council's Ilan Berman Exhorts the West to Find its Backbone

Heather Robinson | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, President Obama, Iranian Revolution, Terrorism, Freedom, President Bush, War on Terrorism, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

American leaders have a habit of voicing support for democracy movements and then abandoning their champions, failing to provide them with economic or strategic support.

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The Explosion of the Afghan Insurgency: Utterly Predictable, Yet Hotly Debated

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Insurgency, Marines, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Washington, NATO Troops, Taliban, Intelligence Community, US Army, War on Terrorism, World News

Recently leaked intelligence assessments reportedly show that Al-Qaida and the jihadist Taliban groups account for only 10 percent of the insurgents in Afghanistan.

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Three Choices in Afghanistan: Counter-Terrorist War, Counter-Insurgency, and Containment

Howard Schweber | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Mcchrystal, Counter-Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Obama, War on Terrorism, Containment, World News

The problems that McChrystal identified with the present approach are daunting: a corrupt and illegitimate government, insurgents' use of safe havens in Pakistan, and pervasive fear and mistrust of the international forces.

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Is the Age of Terror Over?

Gary Hart | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: War on Terror, Terrorism, Age of Terror, Gary Hart, Human Bombs, Richard Clarke, 9/11, Barack Obama, War on Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, World Trade Center, Al Qaeda, World News

By abandoning the "war on terrorism" paradigm, President Obama has helped us understand that acts of terrorism will continue in parts of the world, and that we must continue to make such acts as difficult as possible here in the United States.

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Opinion: Could U.S.-British Cooperation Have Caught More Terrorists?

GlobalPost | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Assad Sarwar, Al Qaeda Britian, Al-Qaeda, Terrorists, Terrorism, Al Qaeda United States, Britain Us, Britain Us War on Terror, Global War on Terror, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussain, War on Terrorism, Al Qaeda, World News

Three British men connected to Al Qaeda were convicted Monday of masterminding a massive terrorism plot that could have resulted in thousands of death...

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Remembering Ted Kennedy's Prescient 2002 Speech Against The Iraq War

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Ted Kennedy Dead, Iraq War, Ted Kennedy Dies, Ted Kennedy Brain Tumor, Kennedy Iraq War Speech, War on Terrorism, War on Terror, Ted Kennedy, Ted-Kennedy-Iraq, Media News

As the press labors today to capture the life and legacy of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, it will be interesting to see if anyone makes mention of ...

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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

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I'm Upset with Archie Andrews and It's Why Some on the Left are Upset with President Obama

Etan Bednarsh | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Archie and Veronica, Guantanamo Detainees, President Obama, Archie Andrews, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorist, War on Terrorism, Barack Obama, Politics News

The reason I care about Archie's upcoming nuptials has to do with why I read the comics in the first place, and that, in turn, explains why some on the left are upset with President Obama.

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FBI Terror Watch List Highly Flawed: DOJ

New York Times | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Terror Watch List, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, Global War on Terror, FBI Terror Watch List, Fbi, Department of Justice, Justice Department, War on Terrorism, Advocacy, World News

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has improperly kept nearly 24,000 people on a terrorist watch list based on outdated or sometimes irrelevant infor...

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"Obama Effect" On Muslim World Falling As Terrorism Rises

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

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A new report from the American Security Project, "Are We Winning? Measuring Progress in the War on Terror: An Interim Update", outlines troubling glob...

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The Term "Man Caused Disasters" Sounds Weak, but the "War on Terror" Has Always Been Weaker

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

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President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.

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"Flying While Arab" Continues to Soar

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

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"Miss!" A large man with a crew cut pointed at me and exclaimed, "You have a bomb in your shoe!" This dude was talking to me. I was shocked.

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Strange Bedfellows at Guantánamo

Jamil Dakwar | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

I've been observing the military commissions since 2004, and Guantánamo never felt more surreal or otherworldly than it did in what we hope were its ...

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Obama May Abandon Bush's "War On Terror" Phrase

Newsweek.com | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

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In another effort to undo the legacy of George W. Bush's presidency, the Obama administration is searching for alternatives to the term "war on terror...

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A New Approach to Terrorism

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.

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When Will McCain Tell Obama About Osama?

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Pakistan, John McCain Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden Capture, John McCain, Terrorism, Sarah Palin, War on Terrorism, Politics News

Maybe, just maybe, McCain always had as much of a chance of finding Osama as Sarah Palin did of winning the National Geographic's geography bee.

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The Resilience of Terror

Peter Henne | Posted 02.10.2009 | World

As we enter the last month of the Bush presidency, progressives around the country are increasing in giddiness. Given the president's legion mistakes ...

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America, Abandoned On Its Own Petard?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Obama Transition, Obama, International Relations, Mindset, John F Kennedy, Pearl Harbor, War on Terror, Cuban Missile Crisis, Terrorism, 9/11, US Intervention Abroad, Us Foreign Relations, World War II, War on Terrorism, Politics News

What if, just like us, other countries are content to let America be in the crosshairs of terrorist regimes and turn a jaundiced eye rather than roll their sleeves up and help?

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Is "Ideology" Bad When it Comes to Foreign Policy?

Shadi Hamid | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: Democracy Promotion, Egypt, War on Terrorism, Pragmatism, Foreign Policy, Ideology, George W. Bush, Foreign Affairs, World News

In the realm of foreign policy, "Ideology" is getting a bad name. "Pragmatism" is, apparently, all the rage. Problem is we aren't being careful with our terms.

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Don't "Split the Baby" with National Security Courts

Ginny Sloan | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Guantanamo, Justice, National Security Courts, Terrorism, Ginny Sloan, The Constitution Project, Human Rights, War on Terror, Bush Administration Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Hybrid Courts, Habeus Corpus, Due Process, War on Terrorism, Politics News

Proponents of national security courts claim that these new hybrid courts would eliminate burdensome procedural rules that protect the rights of defendants.

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