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• In Fort Hood (just like in Afghanistan), US failure to know Muslims well enough?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 598
  The massacre at Fort Hood occurred at a time when US President Barack Obama is at the final stage of decision-making about what to do with the US war in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has been proving to be a failure in the US antiterrorism mobilization, as well as its counterinsurgency campaign. US troops in Afghanistan ...
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• Robert Gates and the ‘American Footprint’ in Afghanistan

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 598
  It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to ...
  3 days ago

• How Many Must Die Before We’re Scared Into A Murderous Outrage?

  
  American Street — Authority: 419
  Answer: It’s time to face down our fears instead. The best news yet in the War in Afghanistan: Obama may reject the military hawks’ plans! Details via Juan Cole. Be sure to click the link ‘Read the whole thing’ at the bottom of his post, for the bigger picture. Before Cole’s post, I’d been writing a ...
  4 days ago

• Extraordinary Rendition, The Story of Abu Omar, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  This post is by guest writer Robert Nijssen who also has his own blog . Abu Omar is an imam from Egyptian origin, who was kidnapped by the CIA from the streets of Milan. For more information on his kidnapping please refer to my original post here . Last week the Italian trial against the involved CIA operatives was ...
  4 days ago

• State to ’spy’ on every phone call, email and web search

  
  Command the Raven — Authority: 148
  From Telegraph UKAll telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.Despite widespread opposition to the increasing amount of ...
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• U.S. antiterrorism laws causing delays for refugees

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 968
  U.S. antiterrorism laws are being applied so strictly that thousands of refugees who fled persecution in their home countries and appear to pose no threat to the United States have had their asylum and immigration applications denied or indefinitely delayed, according to a report released Wednesday.
  5 days ago

• ‘Party of No’ votes against strengthening anti-terrorism legislation

  
  theCLog — Authority: 490
  After eight years of the Bush administration’s fear-mongering, it sometimes seems like the Republican party’s main goal is to scare the crap out of Americans. (Anyone remember the fake-ola “death panels”? How about the Muslim Mafia ?) So, why in the world did the House of Representatives vote along party ...
  6 days ago

• Bill Would Put Screws to American Business

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 530
  Though the attention of most Americans has been diverted by coverage of health care reform, cap-and-trade legislation, and shootings at Fort Hood and in Orlando, at least one other dangerous piece of legislation is creeping its way around the nation’s capitol.  Thanks to a statement from the folks at the American ...
  1 week ago

• Massachusetts AG Criticized for Wood v. Allen Position

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Death penalty foes rip Coakley for signing brief ," is the title of Matt Visers report in todays Boston Globe. The amicus brief is here , in Adobe .pdf format. Attorney General Martha Coakley, who says she is firmly againstcapital punishment, has drawn the ire of some death penalty opponentsby urging the US ...
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• Citizen lawsuits won’t enhance chemical safety

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 475
  Legislation currently under consideration in Congress will allow citizens to sue the Department of Homeland Security if they believe that chemical plants are not in compliance with new regulations . The new regulations — IST, or Inherently Safer Technology — are troubling enough, in that they may actually ...
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• News Coverage of Wood v. Allen & Prosecutorial Immunity Case

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  You can read the transcripts in Pottawattamie County v. McGhee and Wood v. Allen , via the Courts website. Adam Liptak writes, " Justices, in Aftermath of 2 Murder Cases, Hear Claims of a Process Gone Wrong ," for todays New York Times. The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two cases involving claims ...
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• New Dimension in India’s Anti-Christian Violence Feared

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 134
  Concern grows that Hindu terrorists could become more apt to target Christians.PUNE, India, November 5 (CDN) — After the recent arrests of numerous Hindu terrorists for exploding bombs, authorities increasingly view Hindu rightwing extremists as a threat not only to Muslim and Christian minorities but also to ...
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• TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL: Spy chief sings the blues

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 430
  TORONTO STAR EDITORIALAre Canadians soft on terror? In the eyes of the nation’s spy chief, Richard Fadden, there’s no doubt about it. The recently appointed director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service fairly sang the ... Related Posts B TORONTO STAR EDITORIAL: CSIS’s changing role TORONTO STAR ...
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• Indian Muslims Denounce Terrorism

  
  The Islamic Workplace — Authority: 127
  Al JazeeraSome of the most influential Muslim scholars in India have passed a resolution condemning all forms of violence in the name of Islam.The Deoband is an influential Islamic school inspiring tens of thousands of religious study centres across the world, which some say has even inspired the Taliban’s ideology ...
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• Wood v. Allen at Supreme Court

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The Supreme Court hears the Alabama death penalty today.  All briefing is at the ScotusWiki page for Wood v. Allen . " Application of AEDPA to Review of State Determinations of Fact (Wood v. Allen Argument Preview) ," is at SCOTUS Blog.  The preview is written by Tiffany Cartwright. On November 4 th , the Court ...
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• Chemical plant security should be based on technology, not politics

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 475
  As Congress considers legislation that would force our nation’s chemical plants to make expensive changes in their processes and technologies, we need to make sure that we don’t cripple our economy just to appease a small group of environmental activists — all in the name of purportedly greater safety. That’s ...
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• War in Afghanistan: A Victory of Lies (most of them Bush’s)

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 598
  George W. Bush once boasted that the US presence in Afghanistan has ‘given “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans.’ To propel the war in Afghanistan, ‘Bush frightened Americans with a bogus nuclear threat: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears. . . . We have found diagrams of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saudi Anti-Terror Cartoons

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 510
  The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) runs a selection of anti-terrorism political cartoons appearing in recent Saudi publications. Helpfully, the page includes translations, as well as citations. I find it interesting that the political cartoonists use the term ‘War on Terror’ (al harb ‘ala al ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Mad, Mad War in Afghanistan (for oil, what else?)

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 598
  Obama’s ‘war of necessity’ is waged against the Taliban that are a ‘polyglot collection of conflicting political currents whose goals are local, not universal jihad.’ The Taliban have always asserted that they do not pose any international threat. They are not even interested in having anything to do with ...
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• US Terrorist Watch List: inaccurate, outdated, and a ‘comedy of errors’

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 598
  According to a recent US government report, ‘people on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them.’ Having your name on the US government’s ...
  2 weeks ago

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