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07.14.2009 9:00 pm

Assassination, the law and politics

CIA assassins have it easier in the movies.

CIA assassins have it easier in the movies.

So now we are told that shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency began planning to unleash assassination teams on al-Qaida’s leadership, but for almost eight years, the…

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07.11.2008 10:45 am

(Even more) bad news from Pakistan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Not good: “‘More than 100 terror camps’ in operation in northwestern Pakistan”

A few days ago I wrote about the deteriorating situation in northwestern Pakistan and the rise of Taliban power and influence there. Apparently the situation is even worse than the…

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06.13.2008 3:22 pm

“Rumor and rubbish”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Where is Osama bin Laden?

An interview with an anonymous senior military analyst by NBC’s Robert Windrem explodes many of the media myths.

A “Western military analyst” was asked earlier this month about reports that Osama Bin Laden was seen on the…

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06.10.2008 2:47 pm

Iraqi sheikh offers to help fight al-Qaeda in Afghanistan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An incredible story out of Iraq’s Anbar province from the New York Sun: “Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight to Bin Laden”:

The leader of the tribal confederation that has fought to expel Al Qaeda from most of Iraq’s Anbar province is offering his…

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