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Casey vs. Lieberman on Ft. Hood Massacre | The Cable
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rmy Chief of Staff George Casey
took to the airwaves Sunday to warn the public not to overemphasize
unconfirmed reports about anti-American and religious statements
allegedly made by alleged Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan. -
Meanwhile, Senator Joseph Lieberman, I-CT, was on Fox news talking all about Hasan's motivations and warning that the attack could be a new model of terrorism on U.S. soil.
"It's
clear that he was, one, under personal stress and, two, if the reports
that we're receiving of various statements he made, acts he took, are
valid, he had turned to Islamist extremism," Lieberman said, "And
therefore, if that is true, the murder of these 13 people was a
terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most destructive terrorist act
to be committed on American soil since 9/11."
Global Warming Could Create a Legion of 'Climate Terrorists' : TreeHugger
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One man who has made such a consideration is Dr. Greg Austin. The provocative piece he wrote for New Europe called Climate Terrorists: They Will Come is especially foreboding. Austin notes that 40% of the world lives in tropical areas, where even incremental rises in temperatures can have disastrous effects.
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Developing nations comprise the vast majority of these tropical states, many of which have exploding populations, a growing youth bulge, and increasing problems with hunger and health.
Hillary Clinton visits Pakistan in bid to improve relations - washingtonpost.com
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rising anti-Americanism and convincing Pakistanis that the United States wants a relationship based on more than counterterrorism.
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a wave of suicide bombings, assassinations and attacks in Pakistani cities.
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Why Al Qaeda Wants a Safe Haven | Foreign Policy
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He's wrong. Although the group has been significantly
weakened since late 2001, the only chance al Qaeda has of rebuilding its
capability to conduct a large-scale terrorist operation against the United States is under
the Taliban's umbrella of protection. -
But all the e-mail accounts, chat rooms, and social media
available will never account for the human touch. There is simply no substitute
for the trust and confidence built by physically meeting, jointly conceiving,
and then training together for a large-scale, complex operation on the other
side of the world. - 5 more annotations...
Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban: “Diametrically Opposed”? | Foreign Policy
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Mullah Omar's Afghan
Taliban and al-Qaeda's senior leaders have been issuing some very
mixed messages of late, and the online jihadi community is in an
uproar, with some calling these developments "the beginning of the end
of relations" between the two movements. -
Afghan Taliban's
Quetta-based leadership has been emphasizing the "nationalist"
character of their movement - 5 more annotations...
New U.N. report: Opium's not just an Afghan problem | The AfPak Channel
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But too few take note of the fact that the vast majority of
profits are actually earned outside
Afghanistan. -
The report notes, for example, that Afghan farmers earn an
estimated $1 billion annually off the country's 7,000 metric ton opium crop.
Sounds like a lot, right? Not really: By the time they reach their final
destinations, global sales of Afghan opiates are now believed to top $58
billion, according to the report. "We take three percent of the revenue,"
President Karzai is quoted as saying, "and 100 percent of the blame." - 12 more annotations...
Matthew Yglesias » Health Care vs Terrorism
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Even if we want to go with the Institute of Medicine’s lower number, that’s still around 18,000 excess deaths per year. That’s three 9/11s. If we had a terrorism-related death rate anywhere even vaguely in that neighborhood, people would be freaking out.
The Taliban-al Qaeda merger. | The AfPak Channel
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On July 25, Najibullah Zazi, a lanky man in his
mid-twenties, walked into the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora,
Colorado, a suburb of Denver. -
Of course, not many suburban guys buy six bottles of Clairoxide hair
bleach, as Zazi did on this shopping trip-or return a month later to
buy a dozen bottles of "Ms. K Liquid," a peroxide-based product. Aware
that these were hardly the typical purchases of a heavily bearded,
dark-haired young man, Zazi-who was born in Afghanistan and spent part
of his childhood in Pakistan before moving to the United States at the
age of 14-kibitzed easily with the counter staff, joking that he had to
buy such large quantities of hair products because he "had a lot of
girlfriends." - 2 more annotations...
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Studies show cult members are just as intelligent, if not more so, than the general public. And around 95 percent of cult members are perfectly sane (when they join up, anyway), with no history at all of real psychological problems. They're not stupid, and they're not crazy. Of course this only serves to make cults even scarier. How in the hell do these groups get people--who are every bit as sane and smart as your best friend--to join up?
As social animals we are hard-wired to want to belong to a group. It's a need as basic and real as hunger or sex. When we get cut off from our group--say we lose a job, or move to a new city, or break up with our girlfriend--we go a little crazy. Cults are very, very good at finding people in that exact moment of weakness, and saying exactly the right things. Those pamphlets that sound so corny and transparent to you, read like a glorious breath of fresh air to somebody caught in one of those rough spots
Print The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know
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But it wasn't her sister, it was a senior Iranian diplomat. To protect him from reprisals from the Iranian government, she doesn't want to name him, but she describes him as a cultured man in his fifties with salt-and-pepper hair. Since early spring, they had been meeting secretly in a small conference room at the UN.
"Are you all right?" he asked.
Yes, she said, she was fine.
The attack was a terrible tragedy, he said, doubtless the work of Al Qaeda.
"I hope that we can still work together," he said.
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Months before September 11, Mann had been negotiating with the Iranian diplomat at the UN. After the attacks, the meetings continued, sometimes alone and sometimes with their Russian counterpart sitting in.
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The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn't Want You to Know - Esquire
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Suicide bomber kills 31 in attack on Iran Guards - Yahoo! News
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The attack highlighted deepening instability in the Islamic Republic's southeast bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, where many of Iran's minority Sunnis live and which has seen a spate of deadly bombings and other violence in the last few years.
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ethnic Baluch Sunni insurgents and heavily-armed drug traffickers
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The Safe Haven Myth | Foreign Policy
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How big does a safe haven have to be
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Moreover,
policymakers need to recognize that some terrorist groups -- the ones that
survive and persist -- change over time. Before 2001, al Qaeda needed serious
patches of territory to run training camps and field its paramilitary
units. Now, the few remaining al Qaeda militants could not control that much
space even if they wanted to. Al Qaeda's track record shows that eliminating
one base of operations is no guarantee that terrorists won't simply establish
another one somewhere else. Worse, once pushed underground, these militants
inhabit havens that look more like cells than garrisons. Shape-shifting
organizations like al Qaeda and its affiliates, in other words, put the lie to
the assumption that safe havens and states are indistinguishable. - 2 more annotations...
The Safe Haven Myth | Foreign Policy
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Georgetown University's Paul Pillar
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Pillar wrote
that the United States has "largely overlooked a ... basic question: How
important to terrorist groups is any physical haven?" He forcefully argued
that U.S. efforts in Afghanistan would not decrease the terrorist threat to the
United States because, as he put it, "by utilizing networks such as the
Internet, terrorists' organizations have become more network-like, not beholden
to any one headquarters." - 2 more annotations...
Pakistan under siege | The AfPak Channel
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October 15 broke the record for
the number of attacks in a day; three dare-devil commando raids on police
facilities in Lahore, the
country's second largest city, and one in Kohat, near Peshawar, where a car suicide bombing on a Criminal
Investigation Department (CID) building killed about a dozen earlier today. -
This means terrorists have struck seven times against the
Pakistan security establishment since October 10 - 6 more annotations...
Meet The Man Behind The Intern Spy Wars: Muslim Mafia Author Dave Gaubatz | TPMMuckraker
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now at #16 among all books on Amazon.
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former Air Force investigator and Arabic speaker,
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