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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 10:58 am

Nation’s high court sides with Guantanamo detainees

The Supreme Court yesterday extended rights to U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. The ruling, granting habeas corpus to the prisoners, is seen as  a rebuke to the Bush administration. The White House rejected that notion,…

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