War on Terror

The War On Terror(ism) is a term used most frequently during the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, referring to political, military, and legal conflict against terrorist organizations in the wake of 9/11.

The resulting ideology is commonly held to have been a major contributor to such actions as the Iraq War and the internment of political prisoners in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, as well as the creation of the Patriot Act and other controversial legal and political movements.

A hotly debated topic in the blogosphere, the War On Terror continued to be a common phrase even after its official discontinuation by the Obama administration (in favor of the slightly-more-doublespeak "Overseas Contingency Operation"). Bloggers disagree greatly on definitions of terrorism and what actions should be taken against terrorists and terror organizations, and in the pundit-heavy blogosphere, little middle ground can be reached. The War On Terror may officially be over, but there can be no doubt that the ideas it signifies still occupy the minds of many, and that this issue has yet to be resolved in the public consciousness.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “War on Terror”

• U.S. Imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq War

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 593
  On WSWS : While the American corporate media has given little attention to it, an official British inquiry into the war with Iraq has brought to light damning testimony about the Bush administration’s deliberate launching of an invasion to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein and subjugate Iraq to American ...
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• Les égouts de Sa Majesté

  
  In These New Times — Authority: 138
  Danielle GanserVoltairenet20th November, 2009Les réseaux stay-behind, qui permettent à l’OTAN de contrôler la vie politique des États alliés, ont été construits à partir des réseaux de résistance au nazisme que les Britanniques avaient organisé et soutenu durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cependant, la ...
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• Obama to Expand Afghan War by sending More Troops

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 490
  President Obama won’t unveil his plans for Afghanistan until next week, but military officials tell that he intends to escalate the war by sending up to 35,000 additional troops and it is likely that they may find themselve  pitched against Pakistan Armed Forces operating along Pak-Afghan border and  some new ...
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• Julio Huertas is Navy Seal charged in Punching a Terrorist Incident

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 621
  Julio Huertas is one of three Navy SEALS charged in the "punching a Fallujah, Iraq terrorist" incidence. Navy Seals Huertas is 28-years-old. He enlisted in 1999 and has served in "secial warfare units since 2002. He has an Iraq Campaign Medal and was advanced to the SEALs in June 2006. He is ...
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• Jonathan Keefe is Navy Seal Charged in Punching a Terrorist Incident

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 621
  Jonathan Keefe is one of three Navy SEALS charged in the "punching a Fallujah, Iraq terrorist" incidence. Navy Seals Keefe is 25 years old. He enlisted in 2006 and began his SEAL training the same year. He is originally from Yorktown, Virginia. Keefe is charged with offenses occurring around ...
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• American Soldiers May Be Tried A Hague

  
  Bucks Right — Authority: 139
  Just weeks after deciding that the terrorists who plotted and executed the 9/11 terror attacks against America will be brought to the US and given the same rights as US citizens in civilian trials for their roles in the attacks, it appears that the Obama administration is preparing to allow a world court to try [...]
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• Obama Surrenders in the War on Terror

  
  MoltenThought II — Authority: 144
  Obama administration guidelines now presumptively favor civilian trials for the enemy, overturning nearly three centuries of American tradition. At least lefty trial lawyers will make some money off of the deal though, right?
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• Gallup poll: 59% of Americans disagree with Obama, want military trial for KSM

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 571
  According to a Gallup poll released yesterday, 59 percent of Americans believe that 9/11 master mind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in military court, not in a civilian criminal court. Only 36 percent of American support the Obama administrations decision to tried as an ordinary criminal suspect. Not ...
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• Russian Train Destroyed by Terrorist Bomb

  
  Confederate Yankee — Authority: 635
  The express train carrying passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg was derailed Friday, killing 30 and injuring at least one hundred. Russian authorities claim that have found a blast crater and chemical residue that indicates the train was targeted in...
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• RUSSIAN OFFICIALS OPEN TERROR INVESTIGATION OVER TRAIN DERAILMENT BOMBING…DOZENS KILLED

  
  The News Factor ... an informative online Conservative news magazine — Authority: 446
  CNN in Moscow has reported that Russian officials have come to a preliminary conclusion that explosives were involved in the derailment of a train that was traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg. This has now prompted an investigation of terrorism under the Russian Criminal Code. In the report CNN writes: “The ...
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• TERROR WARNING AT FORT BENNING UNDER INVESTIGATION: NOTE FOUND THREATENING FT. HOOD STYLE REENACTMENT

  
  The News Factor ... an informative online Conservative news magazine — Authority: 446
  Christian Boone and Mashaun D. Simon at the Atlanta Journal reported Saturday morning (11-28-09) that on Thursday “… a solider found a suspicious package and a note threatening a massacre similar to the Nov. 5 attack at Fort Hood, Texas, Elsie Jackson, post spokeswoman at Fort Benning confirmed Saturday.The ...
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• The Confused Post Hoc Rationalizations of Robert Wright

  
  Anchor Rising — Authority: 436
  Robert Wrights recent op-ed in the New York Times has the feel of a post hoc argument and is, simply put, confused. The American right and left reacted to 9/11 differently. Their respective responses were, to oversimplify a bit: "kill the terrorists" and "kill the terrorism meme." Conservatives backed war in ...
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• Fucking For Allah

  
  Reflections From a Murky Pond — Authority: 421
  Iran’s front group and terrorist organization in Lebanon, Hezbollah, has determined how to both recruit more young-adult terrorists and increase the size of their nests via breeding the next litters of jihadis. They’ve decided to exhort their women and girls to fuck for Allah . Mohammad, a 40-year old Lebanese ...
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• American’s Real Designs About Afghanistan

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 490
  GERMAN/AMERICAN SCHOLAR F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL’S UNCONVENTIONAL IDEAS ABOUT AMERICAN REAL DESIGNS RELATED TO AFGHANISTAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcajbp9EsXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51aGQwQ_80w
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• Politically Correct Stupidity!

  
  American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free — Authority: 483
  It has been shown recently that the Fort Hood Islamic Radical terrorist who killed 13 and wounded another 30 or so innocent Americans was a lover of Islam. He had spoken fondly of beheadings and had active correspondence with Yemeni terrorists for perhaps as long as two years before perpetrating his personal act of ...
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• Why are We Trying Them if Were Going to Detain Them Regardless of the Verdict?

  
  Anchor Rising — Authority: 436
  Under " John Loughlin on the Civil Trial of Terrorists ", Joe Bernstein observes, Nor can you explain how it is that Holder admits before a Senate committee that he doesnt know the consequences of an acquittal after these people are brought into this country under color of law to stand trial. Quoting Attorney ...
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• Steaming Load of the Week Award: Global Warming Ass Hats & Jihadikaze-Loving Military Brass Asses

  
  King's Right Site — Authority: 135
  From Politically Incorrect Gazette -- Steaming Loads of the Week Award: This week, at least two titanic turds floated to the surface. Turd 1: Globally Warmed assholes with a political agenda pervert science by deliberately faking global warming data. Rational adults had already sniffed ...
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• Britain’s Role in Pakistan Torture: The Human Rights Watch Report

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 616
  Long-time EA readers will know that I have been none-too-happy with the evasions of the British Government over torture in the War on Terror, criticising Foreign Secretary David Miliband for using deceptions as well as court action to prevent the truth from emerging. This week Human Rights Watch brought out a bit ...
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• THE PAKISTANI PROBLEM..

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 487
  I was reading that Counter-terrorism police and Whitehall officials believe dozens of extremists could have arrived here by posing as students or legitimate visitors. They are concerned both by the relatively lax checks that are made on the visitors before they arrive and by the ease with which they can ...
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• Some outrageous junk to start the weekend. Good Morning World.

  
  Barking Moonbat Early Warning System — Authority: 512
  And the Tories are the cons here. Cons. Hmm.  That fits too. What a way to fight a war.  Why not declare it a police action instead and ..... oh the hell with it.  Bothers me a lot truth to tell. Not the idea that a few Brit soldiers may, I stress “may” have done something wrong. That’s been in the news a ...
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