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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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CQ Politics | Terrorist Financing: ‘They’ve Picked Up on Globalization Faster Than We Have’
On trial for war crimes before the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Taylor collected gold and diamonds instead of picking up garbage or running schools for his people. At the same time, Taylor allowed Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and Russian and Israeli criminal g
Military's problems are worse than Barno and Scales said - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense
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The Military does not have a clear
mission for the future. It used to be that we win large, conventional
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added on "and fully occupy, stabilize and hand over
two Stability Operations" to that capability without significantly increasing
the budget, manpower allocated and resources necessary to do so. - 13 more annotations...
How al Qaeda Dupes Its Followers | Foreign Policy
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In fact, these men fit exactly the profile that the FBI and
the world should now come to expect: no profile at all. A militant's profile
lies not in his age, race, culture, or education; anyone can join or be adopted
by the al Qaeda network, the only prerequisite being a willingness to accept
the group's radical, cult like ideology. So if there is a lesson to be learned
from these recent arrests, it is that profiling won't work. We need something
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Indeed, so persuasive is the rhetoric that al Qaeda
regularly convinces converts to reject 1,431 years of Islamic teachings in
favor of a mission whose intention is the destruction and re-engineering of
Islam itself. Osama bin Laden has managed to replace fear of God and adherence
to the Quran with his philosophy of jihad above all else. What's behind that
facade is the true philosophical intentions of al Qaeda: the establishment of a
new Islamic caliphate that will defeat democracy as the greater of the two political
orders. Al Qaeda's leaders seek to reverse what they claim are corrupt Islamic practices
bookended by the Mongol invasions in 1256 and Ataturk's ending the caliphate in
1924. Theirs is a fight to turn Islam's clock back to the time of Prophet
Muhammad's original followers. - 7 more annotations...
Politics Of Tough, Ctd - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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we *already* have them. Are any of these terrorists more dangerous than, say: John Gotti, or the Unabomber, or Manuel Noriega, or Tim McVeigh, or Ramzi Yousef & Omar Ahmad Rahman (two who were involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993)? And Noriega and Rahman aren't even in the "SuperMax" prison! In fact, our prisons are probably more secure than that of Gitmo -- has anyone escaped from there? We already house well over 100 terrorists. It's no big deal. Frankly -- gang members are harder to control. In our SuperMax prison (Florence, Co.), not only has there been no escape, there hasn't even been an attempted escape.
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I wonder if Boehner will threaten to cut off funding for the Florence Supermax - as he has for the Thomson transfer - and ship all of those terrorists to Guantanamo.
Daily brief: 5 N. Va. men arrested, questioned in Pakistan on possible jihadist links | The AfPak Channel
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However,
recent reports say that a police source in Sargodha said the five men
have told FBI investigators that they went to Pakistan to take part in
jihad, while security officials report that the men were allegedly
planning to strike "sensitive installations" in Pakistan (CBS, AP, Reuters, AFP, McClatchy, AP).
Three Pakistanis have also been detained, one on suspicion of links to
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Five
U.S. citizens from the suburbs of northern Virginia were arrested at
the home of an activist allegedly affiliated with Jaish-e-Mohammed in
Sargodha, a town in Punjab province in Pakistan, after going missing
from their U.S. homes about a week ago, and are currently being
questioned by Pakistani authorities on suspicion of links to terrorism (NYT, AP, BBC, Telegraph, Dawn). JeM was involved with the 2002 murder of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal
reporter, and an assassination attempt on former Pakistani President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, though its roots are fighting Indian forces in
the disputed Kashmir territories (AJE, Bloomberg, AFP). - 5 more annotations...
Flight 297 Passenger: Tedd Petruna Is 'Living In A Fantasy World' | TPMMuckraker
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A security consultant who was a passenger on AirTran Flight 297 says the man who claims he thwarted porn-watching Muslim hijackers clearly fabricated the story, but Brent Brown adds that the airline's version of events underplays the seriousness of what happened.
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But Brown, whose firm is based in Atlanta, also said that AirTran's explanation of what happened doesn't tell the whole story. He said a group of passengers -- "of obvious Middle Eastern descent, which doesn't concern me" -- were refusing to cooperate with flight attendants and using cell phones while the plane was on the runway. The atmosphere was "extremely tense," and the crew was upset, according to Brown.
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Project Syndicate - Inside Thailand’s Hidden War
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Thailand’s former prime minister, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, recently ignited a furor when he proposed that the separatist campaign in his country’s Muslim-majority southern provinces might be solved politically, with a form of self-rule. Thailand’s ruling Democrat Party immediately called Chavalit’s remarks “traitorous.”
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Armed mainly with machetes and kitchen knives, 106 attackers perished that day, 32 of them inside Pattani’s historic Krue-Ze mosque, where they had taken refuge. Five members of the Thai security forces were also killed.
A Talking Point Built Of Straw - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to was look at the Classified Information Procedures Act, a short and crystal clear 1980 law that not only permits, but requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself.
Schneier on Security: Al Qaeda Secret Code Broken
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Between them, the code-breakers speak all the dialects that form the basis for the code. Several of them have high-value skills in computer technology. The team worked closely with the U.S. National Security Agency and its station at Menwith Hill in the north of England. The identity of the code-breakers is so secret that not even their gender can be revealed.
The Jihadists Who Have Recanted I - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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A wave
of young British Islamists who trained to fight – who cheered as their
friends bombed this country – have recanted. Now they are using everything
they learned on the inside, to stop the jihad.
Seventeen former radical Islamists have "come out" in the past 12
months and have begun to fight back. Would they be able to tell me the
reasons that pulled them into jihadism, and out again? Could they be the key
to understanding – and defusing – Western jihadism? I have spent three
months exploring their world and befriending their leading figures. Their
story sprawls from forgotten English seaside towns to the jails of Egypt's
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As he watched the news of the Luxor massacre in Egypt or Hamas
suicide-bombings of pizzerias in Tel Aviv, "It just became more and
more difficult to justify that." He found himself thinking about the
Jewish friends he had made at school. "They were just like me – human
beings. And we had a lot in common. The dietary laws, and the identity
issues, and the fear of racism." As he heard the growing Islamist
chants at demonstrations – "The Jews are the enemy of God,"
they yelled – something, he says, began to sag inside him. - 1 more annotations...
Yglesias Award Nominee - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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"[T]here is no question about the legitimacy of U.S. federal courts to incapacitate terrorists. Many of Holder’s critics appear to have forgotten that the Bush administration used civilian courts to put away dozens of terrorists, including “shoe bomber” Richard Reid; al-Qaeda agent Jose Padilla; “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh; the Lackawanna Six; and Zacarias Moussaoui, who was prosecuted for the same conspiracy for which Mohammed is likely to be charged. Many of these terrorists are locked in a supermax prison in Colorado, never to be seen again,"
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Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, deputy attorney general and assistant attorney general under George W. Bush, respectively.
Lacking Evidence, Hoekstra Blames Obama Admin. For Fort Hood | TPMMuckraker
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At a press conference today, where he was joined by several GOP colleagues, Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence committee, called for an immediate congressional investigation into the shootings, to determine whether the intelligence community needs enhanced tools to combat terror. Hoekstra and his colleagues also suggested, without citing evidence, that the administration had restricted the use of crucial terror-fighting tools that could have been used to stop the attacks.
Schneier on Security: Beyond Security Theater
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Unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible. Such measures include enhancing the intelligence-gathering abilities of the secret services, hiring cultural experts and Arabic translators, building bridges with Islamic communities both nationally and internationally, funding police capabilities -- both investigative arms to prevent terrorist attacks, and emergency communications systems for after attacks occur -- and arresting terrorist plotters without media fanfare. They do not include expansive new police or spying laws. Our police don't need any new laws to deal with terrorism; rather, they need apolitical funding. These security measures don't make good television, and they don't help, come re-election time. But they work, addressing the reality of security instead of the feeling.
Matthew Yglesias » Criminals and Warriors
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but if you have to put the whole thing in either the “crime” box or the “war” box, there’s a pretty strong case for erring on the side of crime.
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In political terms, the right likes the war idea because it involves taking terrorism more “seriously.” But in doing so, you partake of way too much of the terrorists’ narrative about themselves. It’s their conceit, after all, that blowing up a bomb in a train station and killing a few hundred random commuters is an act of war. And war is a socially sanctioned form of activity, generally held to be a legally and morally acceptable framework in which to kill people.
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Re: Was It Terrorism? - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner on National Review Online
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Again, I'd like to make it clear that just because I am raising the possibility that terrorism isn't necessarily the right word doesn't mean I am trying to diminish the evil of what this guy did.
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