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• VIDEO: Taliban Breaking News: Karzai Suspends Talks With US in Protest

  
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  Karzai suspends Talks with US in Protest. US, Taliban to meet in Qatar for ‘key milestone’ toward ending Afghanistan war. Taliban Signal Readiness to Begin Peace Negotiations This article, “Taliban Breaking News: Karzai Suspends Talks With US in Protest”, is categorized as “World” and its copyright notice ...
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• Armed gang kills 48 in raid in Nigeria

  
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  An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a state official said Wednesday. The attack saw gunmen move house to house as well as take positions atop a hill and open fire, the official said. Houses were also burnt, but it ...
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• NPA’s Parago declares 5 Army men as Prisoners of war

  
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  By DAVAO TODAY Davao Today The NPA said their “active counter-intelligence and subsequent operations” were meant to punish AFP units, especially the Civil Military Operations Battalion headed by Maj. Jake Obligado, for continuing to “encroach, settle and conduct psychological warfare and intelligence ...
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• The Dispensable Nation? A Review

  
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  By: Peter J. Munson Beware the lure of "credibility."
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• Targeting and Intelligence at the Company Level: Lessons Learned from a CoIST in Afghanistan

  
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  By: Christopher G. Ingram Counterinsurgency is often a small-unit battle, with company-sized elements requiring organic intelligence capabilities to leverage information into tactical success.
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• Some thoughts on blowback

  
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  In the aftermath of two men brutally slaughtering Lee Rigby in Woolwih,  Jonathan Freedland  wrote this column on responding to the motives of murderers: ... It seems were ready to listen when we have some sneaking sympathy, not for the act itself, but for the cause it seeks to highlight ... But if its wrong for ...
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• Thai talks aim to curb violence for fasting month

  
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  Thai government and Muslim separatist negotiators said Thursday they hope to curb violence in insurgency-wracked southern provinces during the upcoming Muslim fasting month. The two sides issued a statement after holding a round of peace talks in Malaysia seeking an "expression of sincerity, goodwill ...
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• A Message of Felicitation from the Esteemed Amir-Ul-Momineen on the Occasion of Eid: An Analysis of Taliban Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr Statements from 2006 to 2012

  
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  By: Timothy D. Soper The Eid statements demonstrate an increasing sophistication in strategic messaging and understanding of international politics.
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• Moral Degeneration in the Crucible of War

  
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    The recent post on Is 4GW Dead? stirred a great deal of interest, so I would like to extend the discussion on a point that that is critical not only for those who have responsibility for conducting military campaigns, but for statecraft and policy as well. One of more important tenets of 4GW was the ...
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• 300 detained at Moscow Muslim prayer room following Putin crackdown

  
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  Moscow police detained 300 Muslims after President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown on radical Islamists ahead of next years Winter Olympics in Sochi. The 300 people, including 170 foreigners, were held at a Muslim prayer room in the capital, and police said Islamist literature had been confiscated, according to ...
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• Insurgency Preview (PC)

  
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  Team based war games have flooded the video game market for some time now. Many of the successful instances of these objective base shooters were born into this world as mods for games like Half-Life or one of the many variations of Quake. The largest success story of which was Counter-Strike. While the modding … ...
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• Aiding Opposition Civilian Authority in Syria

  
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  By: Sam Abrams In civil wars like Syria’s, strength is not necessarily a product of popularity; often strength actually produces popularity because compliance is more important than winning hearts and minds.
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• Specifics elusive in Nigerias extremist fight

  
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  Nigerias ongoing battle with Islamic extremists in its northeast remains almost a shadow war, as details from the fighting remain sketchy even after military officials invited journalists to the front lines. On Thursday, officials drove journalists around in circles in Maiduguri, the birthplace of the ...
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• Army helicopter crash in Sudan kills 2 crew

  
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  A Sudanese military spokesman says a military training helicopter has crashed in the countrys south, killing its two crew members. Col. Sawarmy Khalid was quoted on Thursday by SUNA, Sudans official news agency, as saying that the crash was an accident. Khalid says the helicopter hit a ...
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• Russia arrests suspect in foiled terror attacks

  
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  Russias counter-terrorism agency says special forces arrested a man Thursday who is accused of planning a terrorist attack on Moscow that the agency foiled last month. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that troops from the Federal Security Service, or FSB, arrested Yulai ...
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• National Security Flaws: Boston Marathon Attack Intel FOUND in Russia

  
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  RUSSIAN OFFICIAL: FBI MISSED BOSTON WARNING A senior Russian official said Tuesday that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented if American officials had followed through with Russian intelligence. ...
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• We Need Freedom of Speech in our Financial Commerce

  
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  The following article was written by Mike Gogulski  and published in Bitcoin Magazine , May 30th, 2013 . Financial commerce, the exchange of money and currency, is indistinguishable from speech. Therefore, it deserves the exact same respect and “freedom of speech” protections afforded to the utterances of the ...
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• Russian investigators arrest powerful local mayor

  
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  Russias top investigative agency says the powerful mayor of the regional capital of the restive southern province of Dagestan has been detained on charges of organizing an investigators killing. The Investigative Committees spokesman, Vladimir Markin, said that Said Amirov, the mayor of Makhachkala, was ...
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• Russia says American officials could have stopped the Boston bombings!!!

  
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  Russian officials believe they provided the U.S. with enough information to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings,  The Boston Globe reports .   Russia warned the U.S. that Tamerlan Tsarnaev — the bombing suspect who died in a police shootout days after the April attack — planned to join an Islamic insurgency. ...
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• Nigeria releases 58 arrested in extremist sweeps

  
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  Nigerias military and security forces say theyve released 58 women and children previously held as suspected fighters in the Islamic insurgency now challenging the nations government. Authorities said Friday they released the prisoners in Adamawa and Borno states, two of the three states now under ...
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