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Commentary: Hard for U.S. to hold moral high ground when reacting to Taliban's capture of Bergdahl »
Posted by: tehranchik 4 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Although saddening to watch, I trust you took a good look at this man who is ours - one of us.
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Recently I compared the Afghanistan ...Read (151) | Share | Discuss (3) | Read Full Story at mcclatchydc.com
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The Taliban get their first wish »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 1 week ago in Political News
A key factor in the Taliban's revival after being driven from power by US-led forces in 2001 was that from 2004 they established a ...
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What Obama Couldn't Say About Af-Pak »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months ago in Political News
What about detainees? Currently we're holding some 600 of them at Afghanistan's Bagram air base--aka "Afghanistan's Guantanamo"-- with plans for a major ...
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How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 weeks, 5 days ago in Political Opinion
What's particularly maddening about Ross' hype is that it had already been well established that Al-Awlaki was the imam at Hasan's Virginia mosque ...
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Thousands flee bomb attacks by US drones - Times Online »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 4 weeks ago in News
AMERICAN drone attacks on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, Pakistani officials claimed after a new attack yesterday killed ...
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US 'not winning in Afghanistan' »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
US President Barack Obama says the US is not winning in Afghanistan, saying it is more complex than Iraq.
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Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. But even if Guantánamo closes ...
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Next flash point over terror detainees: Bagram prison »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
At the height of its operation, the terror detention camp at Guantánamo was viewed as a legal black hole, a place where Al Qaeda ...
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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Among the OLC memos released today [1], one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was ...
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Torture's Rendition »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
As a senior interrogator in Iraq, I conducted more than three hundred interrogations and monitored more than one thousand. I heard numerous foreign fighters state ...
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Suicide bomber kills at least 28 in Pakistan »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Many analysts believe Pakistan's Taliban movement is fomenting sectarian violence as a means of sowing chaos and further destabilizing Pakistan's shaky central government ...
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"Utterly Alien?" - Afghanistan »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months ago in Political News
While I share some of your skepticism (but not your despair), I reject your description of the Afghan and Pakistani people, their institutions, culture and ...
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Hamas is the same as Al Qaeda and Taliban »
Posted by: engineer 11 months ago in News
Hamas murdered thousands of innocent israeli civilians in the past few years. despite the fact that israel redrew back to 1967 borders with Gaza Hamas ...
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To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 10 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Soon after the November election, al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader took stock of America's new president-elect and dismissed him with an insulting epithet. "A ...
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Bin Laden demands Europe withdraw Afghanistan troops »
Posted by: y_soitenly 2 months ago in News
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden demanded that European nations withdraw their troops from Afghanistan in a new audio tape aired on Friday, saying they ...
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