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• Napolitano’s Meets With Critical Infrastructure Leaders

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 528
  Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today hosted her third roundtable meeting with private sector leaders to discuss the shared responsibility of the private sector in supporting the Department’s mission and highlight ongoing cooperative efforts to enhance critical infrastructure ...
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• Gordon Brown Tells Pakistan, Find Bin Laden

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 528
  Gordon Brown told Pakistan to “take out” Osama bin Laden yesterday as Western frustration at its failure to capture the al-Qaeda leader burst into the public glare.With America and Britain seeking support for their decisions in the next two days to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, Mr Brown told ...
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• Fort Hood & the KSM trial- Part I: What do these terrorism stories have in common? by Peter Lance

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  by Peter Lancehttp://www.boilingfrogspost.comNov. 30, 2009Al Qaeda’s Master Spy could be the key to them bothIn its firestorm of coverage, the mainstream media has overlooked a potential link between the two biggest domestic terrorism stories of the day: the shootings at Ford Hood and the decision by the Justice ...
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• Trial Without Major Witness Will Test Tribunal System

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Investigators examined the Navy destroyer Cole after it was attacked by two Qaeda suicide bombers on the southern coast of Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000.
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• Obama’s new policy toward Pakistan was …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 539
  Obama’s new policy toward Pakistan was outlined to President Zardari and the Pakistani military earlier this month in a two-page letter delivered by Obama’s national security adviser James Jones. Obama’s speech Tuesday night at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., will address primarily the ...
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• Obamastan

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 127
  John Cole linked to this from Sully : If he does the full metal neocon as he is being urged to, he should not be deluded in believing the GOP will in any way support him. They will oppose him every step of every initiative. They will call him incompetent if Afghanistan deteriorates, they will call him a ...
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• Afghanistan Is Still Worth the Fight

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 744
  There may not be a single or short explanation justifying a U.S. presence in Afghanistan. But that doesnt mean its time to cut and run.
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• al-Qaeda and Taliban: how connected are the two?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  There has been much confusion as to why the US persists to wage its war in Afghanistan when its target is al-Qaeda, a hugely diminished presence in Afghanistan, and not the Taliban, an ethnic group of domestic insurgents merely fighting for their cause in their local turf. US President Barack Obama, however, calls the ...
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• Obeys Afghanistan surtax bill dead on arrival

  
  The Cable — Authority: 673
  As President Obama gets ready to roll out his newAfghanistan-Pakistan strategy, some leading Democrats are focusing on the costof the pending troop escalation. But they are unlikely to apply actuallegislative pressure on the White House to find the money. The debate was heightened by the introduction of abill by ...
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• Obama Already Backing Away From Afghan Troop Level Commitments

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 509
  Last week, I noted that President Obama looked like he was set to announce that the US would send another 34,000 troops to Afghanistan to stabilize the situation. It was a compromise result between the level requested by Gen. McChrystal (40,000) and a middle option that provided security in several key population ...
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• Just How INEPT is Obama?…That or PURPOSEFUL!

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 154
  Obama invites a nightmare Peter Heck - Guest Columnist - 11/30/2009    The storyline is hauntingly familiar: terrorist detainees were moved to a major city to await trial.  While there, fellow Islamic terrorists decided to make a daring and dastardly attempt to gain their release, not by attacking the ...
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• Rep. Chaffetz, Defeat ISN’T An Option

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  For the most part, Jason Chaffetz has been a breath of fresh air in the House of Representatives since he defeated RINO Chris Cannon, then won the general election. Cindy certainly speaks highly of him, which is high praise. This time, though, I’ve got to take Rep. Chaffetz to the woodshed for his stated views ...
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• Afghanistan: Obama Unveils Strategy Tomorrow

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 439
  Marc Ambinder reports that President Obama will detail his  Afghan strategy  tomorrow in a speech at West Point. It is expected he will order approximately 30,000 more troops to the country with the primary goal of building up the Afghan National Army. While he will detail an exit strategy, he will not define any ...
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• Victory or Defeat: Obama Is Now ‘the Decider’

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  President Obama has finally made a decision on Afghanistan, which he will communicate to an anxious nation tomorrow night. The White House announcement no doubt has already fueled many kitchen-table conversations during this Thanksgiving weekend, maybe even heated debates. For the sake of our national security, ...
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• The Venezuela-African connection

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 543
  Guardian: 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 in Mali , west Africa, the cause of the planes demise has yet to be revealed, ...
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• The Visigoths in history and legend

  
  kalebeul — Authority: 460
  One of Spanish nationalisms numerous Achilles heels.
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• Troops alone cant win Afghan war

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 630
  Afghan security forces patrol the streets of Kabul. Frances Townsend CNN Contributor How can we best meet our national security objectives in Afghanistan? In Gen. Stanley McChrystals assessment, Afghanistan requires an "integrated civilian-military counterinsurgency campaign." The general put the request for ...
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• Whack-a-Mole in Pakistan

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  The Pakistani military finally got serious, more or less, and launched a big offensive into Talibanland in South Waziristan. But this important LA Times story says the results have been something less than dazzling : Pakistani military commanders say that after five weeks of fighting, they are in the final stages ...
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• Why we fight in Afghanistan

  
  The AfPak Channel — Authority: 612
  By J Alexander Thier President Obama has a heavy burden in the next few days. Hemust convince increasingly skeptical publics in the U.S.,Europe, Afghanistan, and theregion of two things: that the U.S.and NATO have a compelling strategic interest in Afghan stability, and thatthey have the will and partners to ...
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• Congress should stop civilian trials for terrorist

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 543
  Rep. Louis Gohmert explains why the military tribunals should be given exclusive jurisdiction to try the terrorist making war against us. He also reproduce this statement by KSM and his co-conspirators: ... - “So, if our act of Jihad and our fighting with you caused fear and terror, then many thanks to God, ...
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