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• Special forces leading fight in Afghanistan, reveals Gordon Brown

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gordon Brown took the unusual step today of announcing that just over 500 special forces soldiers are spearheading Britains fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan. On the eve of Barack Obamas statement on Afghanistan, Brown praised the special forces for "taking the fight directly to the Taliban", as ...
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• Spanish aid workers kidnapped

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Al-Qaida group suspected of kidnapping two men and a woman from Spanish NGO travelling in convoy Spains foreign ministry today confirmed that three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania, probably by a group affiliated to al-Qaida that has been targeting westerners in recent years. The two men and a ...
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• Britain to send 500 more troops to Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth confirms new deployment after conditions laid down by Gordon Brown are met • Datablog: how many troops does each country send to the Nato mission? The defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, today confirmed that 500 more British troops would be sent to Afghanistan. Gordon Brown pledged ...
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• Guest Post: The Duel of Ali ibn Abu Talib with Amru ibn Abd Wudd

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 125
  Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here in a series on radical Islamism and terrorism. A former researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, his most recent essay, an analysis of the powerpoint presentation of Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan , appeared in the ...
  17 hours ago

• Al-Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden was ‘within grasp’ of US

  
  My Green Meadows — Authority: 439
  Osama Bin Laden is believed to be hiding in Pakistan ’s tribal areas US forces had Osama Bin Laden “within their grasp” in Afghanistan in late 2001, a US Senate report says. It says calls for US reinforcements were rejected, allowing the al-Qaeda leader to “walk unmolested” into Pakistan’s ...
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• Gordon Brown to announce 500 more British troops for Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • UK deployment to increase to 9,500 • PM airs frustration with Pakistans efforts Gordon Brown will announce tomorrow that he is sending more British troops to Afghanistan, pre-empting a long-awaited statement from Barack Obama expected on Tuesday. According to reports in Washington, Obama will announce that ...
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• Reracked: Bush/Rumsfeld could have gotten Bin Laden in 2001

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 507
  … but of course, they let him get away : A Senate Foreign Relations Committee report issued this weekend says that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden “was within our grasp” when he was “cornered” in the forbidding mountains of Tora Bora in December, 2001 under intense U.S. bombardment. … The Senate ...
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• Gordon Brown questions Pakistans record on fighting terrorism

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  PM asks why no one knows whereabouts of al-Qaida leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri Gordon Brown today criticised Pakistan s record on fighting terrorism and called on the countrys political and military leaders to do more to find Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders. "Weve got to ask the ...
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• US missed chance to get Bin Laden

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Report says the failure to attack Bin Laden when he was holed up in Tora Bora in late 2001 has had far-reaching consequences Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of US troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when military leaders made the costly decision not to pursue him with massive force, a Senate report ...
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• Bar radical imams, British tycoon says

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Curry King recalls horror on anniversary of Mumbai hotel attack Britains most prominent Muslim businessman, who was trapped inside a burning hotel in the Mumbai terror attacks, is calling on the government to toughen measures against extremist preachers. Sir Gulam Noon, one of Labours most generous donors, says ...
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• Drug seizures in west Africa prompt fears of terrorist links

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Al-Qaida is thought to have gained control of the cocaine trade flourishing in Guinea and Mali There was little for the investigators to go on. The remains of the planes skeleton, smouldering on a remote airstrip in the Sahara desert, revealed few clues. Even now, more than two weeks after the Boeing 727 was found ...
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• Lets Figure Out Afghan Mission’s Objectives First

  
  Politicus.US — Authority: 122
  While everybody is awaiting President Obama’s Tuesday evening speech on Afghanistan strategy to be broadcast out of the United Military Academy at West Point, we are still awaiting some definition of what it is that we are trying to achieve there. To the best of our knowledge nobody has defined either the Iraqi, nor ...
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• Holbrooke: Taliban acceptable if they renounce al Qaeda

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 595
  In an interview with Spiegel, special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, stated that the Obama administration is ready to invite taliban who renounce al Qaeda back in to Afghanistans social/political fold. There is a serious deficit of understand of what and who we are fighting. The taliban, al ...
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• Al Qaedas ability to attack US is wanning

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 595
  According to the former chief of Britains MI6 intelligence agency, Richard Dearlove, al Qaedas ability to attack the US or Britain is wanning due to improved security cooperation between the two countries. But does al Qaeda even need to carry out attacks against the US or Britain? There are plenty of muslims in ...
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• The tangle of the Taliban | Jeremy Binnie

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  For now, the Taliban casts itself as a nationalist insurgency. But a renewed alliance with al-Qaida cannot be ruled out Much has been written about the Afghan insurgency in the mainstream media, but little about the insurgents. The popular impression that the Kabul government and its international allies are battling ...
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• Colvin may be mistaken on torture

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  One wonders if Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat whose warnings about torture of Taliban prisoners by Afghans has created a firestorm of recriminations, had any idea of what he was unleashing when he compiled his report? As an honest man, he might have been too prone to accept complaints by supposed victims. ...
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• Iraqis Arrest 18 Suspected al-Qaida Associates

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 488
  Iraqi security forces arrested 18 suspected al-Qaida in Iraq associates today, and earlier this week captured a terrorism suspect they’ve been pursuing for three years, military officials reported. Iraqi forces and U.S. advisors searched several houses in Mosul looking for an alleged al-Qaida in Iraq regional ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Bildungblog — Authority: 450
  When he learned that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was going to set foot on American soil, John Bolton began to sing: "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee; let the water and the blood, from thy wounded side which flowed, be of sin the double cure; save from wrath and make me ...
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• Deciphering the Mohammed Trial

  
  http://afrospear.wordpress.com/ — Authority: 120
  This article: Deciphering the Mohammed Trial by STRATFOR, is the most indepth commentary I have read so far on the issues surrounding the decision by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to have the 5 terrorists involved in the 9/11 plot, including the mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, moved from Guantanamo to New ...
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• Pundita: How the U.S. government built a perpetual-motion war machine in Afghanistan and sacrificed American values in the process

  
  RBO — Authority: 528
  It’s too bad everything doesn’t work as smoothly as this does:Pundita writes on her blog:In July 2008 Mark Mazzetti, one of the great American journalists to report on U.S. defense issues in the post-9/11 era, wrote for The New York Times about the complexities that American intelligence professionals faced when ...
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