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"US Intelligence Ineptitude And Diversion"

Thu, 11-12-09 8:32 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Thu Nov 12, 5:11 PM ET The Islamic Education Center is seen in Potomac, Md. on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The center rents this building from the Alavi Foundation, which owns the building but does not run the center. Fed
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"Can American Money Buy Peace In Afghanistan?"

Wed, 10-28-09 5:24 P GMT-06
US Army Ambushed by Taliban 2009Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also ma
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"Is Afghanistan Really The Right War?"

Wed, 09-30-09 7:45 P GMT-06
During the presidential election campaign, Barack Obama maintained that Iraq was the wrong war for the US and Afghanistan was the right one. Now he seems to be having second thoughts. But in one of the most stark warnings a field commander has ever d
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"Fighting Terrorism Within The Rule Of Law"

Mon, 09-28-09 11:25 A GMT-06
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and one of his hardline lieutenants face the rare prospect of being held personally liable for alleged violations of individuals' rights in the aggressive aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks.High-ranking
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"Iran's Freedom Movement Is Not Dead"

Fri, 09-18-09 8:00 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Fri Sep 18, 7:39 AM ET Supporters of defeated presidential candidate and opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi show victory signs during a rally marking Qods (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran September 18, 2009. Iran security f
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"Will Israel Allow Iran To Be Inspected?"

Thu, 08-20-09 5:45 P GMT-06
Mohamed ElBaradeiمحمد البرادعي4th Director General of the International Atomic Energy AgencyDr. Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei (Arabic: محمد البرادعي‎, transliteration: Muḥammad al-Barādaʿī) (born June 17, 1942, in Cairo, Egypt) is the Director Genera
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"Iraq's Recipe For Civil War"

Wed, 08-19-09 5:03 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Wed Aug 19, 1:18 AM ET Sunni Muslim Sahwa militiamen man a checkpoint in the southern Baghdad district of Dora. For fighters in Dora, known as Sahwa councils (Arabic for Awakening), there is a sense that good deeds are
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"Democracy Being Tested In Afghanistan"

Tue, 08-18-09 5:31 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Tue Aug 18, 1:27 AM ET An Afghan street vendor reads a pamphlet on a street in Kabul. After Soviet occupation, civil war and Taliban repression, Afghans are willing to dice with death to vote for a better future, but a
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"No More Acceptable Civilian Casualties In Afghanistan"

Wed, 07-01-09 9:31 P GMT-06
Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops moved into Taliban-infested villages of southern Afghanistan with armor and helicopters Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country
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"The Quandary Of Gitmo Detainees"

Tue, 06-09-09 7:02 P GMT-06
Under heavy guard, a Guantanamo Bay detainee walked into a civilian U.S. courtroom for the first time Tuesday, underscoring the Obama administration's determination to close the Cuban prison and hold trials here despite Republican alarms about br
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"Obama Did America Proud In Cairo"

Thu, 06-04-09 6:46 P GMT-06
 U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech in the Grand Hall of Cairo University June 4, 2009.REUTERS/Larry Downing Thu Jun 4, 6:05 PM ET We meet at a time of great tension between the United States and Muslims around the world, tension root
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"Winds Of Reform Blowing In Iran?"

Wed, 05-27-09 7:15 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Wed May 27, 12:50 PM ET President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen here on May 25, 2009, on Wednesday warned his rivals in June's election that their heavy criticism amounted to "insulting" the Iranian people, t
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"Obama's National Security Triangulations"

Thu, 05-21-09 5:38 P GMT-06
No higher resolution available.Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed_after_capture.jpg‎ (700 × 535 pixels, file size: 87 KB, MIME type: image/jpegThe responsibilities we carried belong to others now. And though I’m not here to speak for George W. Bu
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"Sometimes National Security Trumps Politics"

Tue, 05-19-09 7:35 P GMT-06
Senate Democrats say they will strip out $80M in new funding in a wartime spending bill to begin the process of closing the Guantanamo detention facility. Photo: Reuters  President Barack Obama's promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison su
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"Politicized CIA Continues Under Obama"

Thu, 05-14-09 6:00 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Thu May 14, 2:34 PM ET Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at a press conference where a plan to deal with executive compensation at companies which received capital under the Troubled Asset Relief Program
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"Is The Taliban A National Security Issue?"

Tue, 05-12-09 8:05 P GMT-06
The Obama administration is struggling to confront a central reality of the Afghanistan war it inherited — that more troops, more aid and a retooled strategy alone are not enough.It wants to energize the effort with new ideas, too — and d
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"Fighting Terrorists Within The Rule Of Law"

Fri, 05-01-09 7:37 P GMT-06
  In this 2001 handout photo from the Peoria County Sheriff's Office, Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri,... In this 2001 handout photo from the Peoria County Sheriff's Office, Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri, former graduate student at Bradley Univers
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"All Is Not Well On The Eastern Front"

Thu, 04-23-09 5:51 P GMT-06
Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims Thursday, killing at least 78 people in Iraq's deadliest day in more than a year.The toll — at lea
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"Fighting Pirates With Accountants And Bounty Hunters?"

Wed, 04-15-09 6:10 P GMT-06
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday unveiled a diplomatic initiative to thwart attacks on ships off Somalia's coast and combat what she called the "scourge of piracy."Clinton said the State Department will "explore ways
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"Let Pakistan Deal With The Taliban?"

Mon, 02-16-09 7:34 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Mon Feb 16, 6:02 AM ET Representatives of Islamic militants arrive to attend a peace meeting with Pakistani government officials in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. At the meeting, regional government offic
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"US Drone Planes Reign Of Terror On Pakistan"

Sat, 02-14-09 8:36 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Sat Feb 14, 8:25 AM ET A protest rally against the US missile strike in Pakistan's tribal areas in 2008. A suspected US missile strike destroyed a major Taliban training camp in Pakistan Saturday, killing at least
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"Israel Should Be Charged With War Crimes"

Sat, 01-17-09 7:33 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Sat Jan 17, 5:02 PM ETIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, left, shakes hands with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, at a press conference following a meeting of the security cabinet at the Defense Ministry in
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"Obama's Intelligence Gathering Directors Unqualified"

Mon, 01-05-09 7:21 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Mon Jan 5, 2:45 PM ETIn this Dec. 5, 2006 file photo, Leon Panetta, then a member of the Iraq Study Group, walks into a Washington hotel. President-elect Barack Obama has selected Panetta to head the CIA, according to
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"Israeli Air Strikes On Gaza Is Terrorism"

Fri, 01-02-09 8:27 P GMT-06
<!-- end photoProvider -->Thu Jan 1, 5:37 PM ETPresident George W. Bush, with first lady Laura Bush, waves as they return to the White House from Texas, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009, in Washington.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) President George W. Bu
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"Will Bosnia Be A Test For Obama?"

Sun, 12-28-08 12:20 P GMT-06
Johan Spanner for The New York TimesA billboard for a clothing store near a mosque in Sarajevo. Islam is making a comeback in Bosnia, where religious and national identities have long been fused. Thirteen years after a war in which 100,000 people wer
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