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Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comFor all the endless, exciting talk about the latest Terrorist attack, one issue is, as usual, conspicuously absent: motive. Why would a young Nigerian from a wealthy, well-connected family want to blow himself up on one of our airplanes along with 300 innocent people, and why would Saudi and ...
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Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical modelWhen bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as this one. However, the likelihood of such events, their timing and ...
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VIDEO: Iran's Nuclear TriggerConfidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb. The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that ...
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Kucinich Plans to Force Vote on US Withdrawal from Afghanistan | CommonDreams.orgFor Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Afghan President Hamid Karzai's announcement Tuesday that his country would need the US's military support for another 10 or 15 years seems to have been the last straw. [] The outspoken House representative says it was Karzai's statement that prompted him ...
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Congressman Kucinich’s Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine | CommonDreams.orgFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2009 11:07 AM CONTACT: Congressman Dennis Kucinich Nathan White (202)225-5871 Congressman Kucinich’s Response to President Obama’s “Just War” Doctrine WASHINGTON - December 11 - “Yesterday, our president mused about the inevitability of war, war’s ...
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U.S. charges Chicago man in '08 Mumbai attack - Yahoo! NewsU.S. prosecutors on Monday charged a Chicago man, David Headley, with helping plan the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six Americans. Headley, the first American charged in the plot, was accused of receiving training from the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, ...
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Suicide attackers kill 35 at Pakistan mosque - Yahoo! NewsMilitants stormed a mosque frequented by Pakistani army officials, killing at least 35 worshippers during Friday prayers as they sprayed gunfire and threw grenades before blowing themselves up, officials said. The strike was part of a wave of by Islamist insurgents that has killed more than 400 ...
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Pakistani Taliban Targets Both Boys' and Girls' Schools - TIMEThe numbers show the extent of the war on education by the Pakistani Taliban. At least 473 schools across Swat and Federally Administered Tribal Areas have been destroyed over the past two years. Militants recently blew up a 12-room state-run high school and health clinic for boys in Hangu ...
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Obama: The Audacity Of Hopelessness...With Obama's massive troop escalation (can the Nobel Peace Prize be rescinded?) he's made Afghanistan his war, reminiscent of President Johnson's Vietnam War escalation. At the current death rate of 500 soldiers per year the events depicted in the film will soon become a shattering reality for ...
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The crazy, irrational beliefs of MuslimsBy Glenn Greenwald (updated below - Update II - Update III) Tom Friedman, The New York Times, today: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced -- I assume anyone who shoots up innocent people is. Tom Friedman, The Charlie Rose Show, May 30, 2003: ROSE: Now that the war is over, ...
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