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BBC Overrates al Qaeda Power in Iraq

20 hours ago ago from World Threats

With today's horrific bombing in Iraq, the BBC has posted a piece asking if al Qaeda is bouncing back in Iraq. The reason it's a question is because no, it's not. After every large bombing now, there are articles claiming that Iraq is descending into hell. Fortunately it appears that there are many factors which prevent this. Iraq is more economically stable than perhaps any time in the last twenty years. Its currency is stable and ...

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The Taliban - Al Qaeda Schism

16 hours ago ago from Free Thought Manifesto

Conflict Makes Nonsense of U.S. Rationale for Surge By Gareth Porter December 7, 2009 Courtesy Of Counter Punch U .S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen argued in Senate Testimony Wednesday that the 30,000-troop increase is necessary to prevent the Taliban from giving new safe havens to al Qaeda terrorists. But that argument is flatly contradicted by the evidence of ...

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The Shame and Folly of Obamas Afghan War : One Penny Sheet

23 hours ago ago from One Penny Sheet

OPS_admin | Dec 08, 2009 | Comments 0 - - By Dave Lindorff There are so many things wrong with Obama s “New and Improved” Afghanistan War that it s hard to know where to begin, but I guess the place to start is with his premise. If America needs to be fighting in Afghanistan because Al Qaeda planned and launched the 9-11 attacks from there back in 2001, as the president claimed in his lackluster address to the cadets at West ...

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Is Lashkar-e-Taiba Going Global?

23 hours ago ago from Security and Alarm Systems Blog

Charges that an American scouted targets in Mumbai, India for Lakshar-e-Taibi s (LeT) 2008 attack that killed 166 people has Time Magazine asking whether the regional terror group is expanding to join al Qaeda on the world stage: read more

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Nathan Gonzalez: The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Iraq

23 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. And despite the successes of the 2007 troop surge, our unwillingness to tackle the root of the sectarian divisions in Iraq will mean further bloodshed for the people of that country. As I argue in my book The Sunni-Shia Conflict: Understanding Sectarian Violence in the Middle East , one of the Bush administration's most ...

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