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• Poll | Do you agree that British participation in the war in Afghanistan is necessary to protect the UK from al-Qaida terrorism?

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Gordon Brown insists that continued British participation in Natos military action in Afghanistan is necessary to protect the UK from the threat of al-Qaida terrorist plots originating in the region. Do you agree?
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• Thomas Hegghammer on the big impact of small footprints

  
  MoStFab — Authority: 117
  For its excellence I need to recommend this article by Thomas Hegghammer with wholehearted support of its analysis and a longish excerpt that I want to include here. It also nicely adds to what I was discussing a couple of days ago, in reaction to an article by Leah Farrall. Here is what follows when U.S. departure ...
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• Gordon Brown: we will never accept calls to appease Taliban

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Gordon Brown will claim today that more has been done to disable al-Qaida this year than in any year since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. His remarks are designed to bolster waning support for the war as a Comres poll in the Independent on Sunday showed 71% of the British public want troops to leave ...
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• Small Wars, Big Purposes

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  What’s going on on the Saudi-Yemen border, and what it might mean for the US are the major topics of this article from Small Wars Journal , republished at Foreign Policy Journal online. Saudi Arabia, driven by the specter of 175K refugees and a border incursion, felt compelled to react. Oddly, the piece makes no ...
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• Chris Riddell on Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Chris Riddell on the Afghanistan dilemma Chris Riddell
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• Common Thread (Iran aiding Yemeni rebels)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  The al-Houthi tribe is involved in local uprisings in Yemen, attempts by Al-Qaida and Iran to ignite the Middle East, and power struggles between Saudi princes. They may yet destroy Yemeni unification. "The instructions we received from the king were not to act inside another states territory, but we will not let ...
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• A trial that should restore faith in US justice

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  President Obamas decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court is a brave move and the correct one SO MUCH changed after 11 September 2001. The terrorist attacks on the US had such profound global consequences that they have lodged in the worlds collective imagination as a pivotal moment in history. That ...
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• 9/11 accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be tried in New York court

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The Obama administration today ordered that the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four others be transferred from Guantánamo Bay to New York to stand trial. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, told a press conference in Washington he would be seeking the death ...
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• 9/11 trial prompts security fears for New York

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Critics describe move as risky amid legal concerns about hosting prosecution of Guantánamo detainees in Manhattan It will be one of the trials of the century, the suspected plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a civilian court only half a mile from the scene of the crime, Ground Zero. After months of agonising, the ...
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• Manhattan reaction: Short walk, epic journey from Ground Zero to 9/11 trial

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The walk from the site of the fallen Twin Towers to the Manhattan courthouse where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four codefendants will now stand trial takes about 15 minutes at a gentle stroll. But it symbolises an epic eight-year journey from 2001s terrorist attacks to the first day in court for those accused of ...
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• A nobler, trickier path to justice for 9/11 | Geoffrey Robertson

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Trial by jury for the September 11 suspects can mean justice is seen to be done. Yet calling for the death penalty is an error The US attorney general, Eric Holder, deserves two cheers for his brave decision to bring the alleged 9/11 conspirators to an open trial in New York rather than to put them through a ...
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• Decision to try 9/11 detainees in New York provokes heated debate

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: People The decision by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) to prosecute self-proclaimed 9/11-mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York set off a major debate Friday over whether the move makes legal and practical sense. Mohammed will face a jury trial in federal court in the Southern ...
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• New Yorks 9/11 trial justice

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Putting the 9/11 suspects on trial in New York is the right move - but seeking the death penalty would be a strategic error The decision today by US attorney general Eric Holder to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other 9/11 conspirators in a US court is a victory for the rule of law and the American system ...
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• Families of 9/11 victims divided over decision to hold trial in New York

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Some family members accused President Barack Obama of siding against the US while others praised the move The families of September 11 victims were today divided in their reaction to the decision to try the accused plotters in the attacks in a federal court in New York. Among the people most intimately affected by ...
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• US to seek death penalty against 9/11 suspects

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  President Barack Obama today announced that the five suspects will be tried in a civilian court in New York The United States will seek the death penalty against the five men accused of planning the September 11 attacks, who will be tried in a civilian court in New York City just blocks from the site of the World ...
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• Profiles: the 9/11 accused

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi and Walid bin Attash Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Mohammed is a Pakistani raised in Kuwait but educated in America. The US administration claims he masterminded the 11 September 2001 attacks. He was subjected to waterboarding 183 ...
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• Poll | Should Khalid Sheikh Mohammed face the death penalty?

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  The alleged al-Qaida mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is to face trial with four other Guantánamo detainees in a civilian federal court in New York. Should the US justice department seek the death penalty?
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• Protecting Kensington, from Kandahar? | Jason Burke

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Gordon Brown is right to talk about the origins of terrorism, but wrong to limit the region to Afghanistan and Pakistan In strict terms, the prime minister is right . The vast proportion of terrorist plots targeting the United Kingdom do originate in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The problem is that he should have been ...
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• Bomb Kills 7, Wounds 35 at Pakistan Spy Agency

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  The latest in a string of attacks in Pakistan this week happened on Friday, when a bomb exploded outside of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency’s northwest headquarters in Peshawar, killing seven people and wounding 35, according to the Associated Press.  AP via Google News: A powerful bomb targeted ...
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• Obama Calls for Intel Investigation After Fort Hood Shooting

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  President Barack Obama has ordered a probe into how American intelligence agencies dealt with information they had about suspected gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan before the Nov. 5 shooting at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. BBC: “I directed an immediate inventory be conducted of all intelligence in US government ...
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