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Clear and Present Danger
longwarjournal.org - 11/22/2008
Clear and Present Danger
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Detainees at Guantánamo Bay in 2002. DPA photo. On Sunday, November 16, CBS News ' 60 Minutes broadcast the first interview with President-elect Barack Obama. The exchange touched on a wide range of topics, from Obama's distaste for college football's computerized ...
Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 11/24/2008
Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Reporting from Marine Headquarters At Al Asad, Iraq -- Marine Corps leaders are devising a plan to send thousands of additional combat troops to Afghanistan to wage aggressive warfare against the Taliban that they expect could take years. The Marines ... (more) Marines drafting plan to send more troops to Afghanistan ...

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msnbc.msn.com - 11/25/2008
Karzai: Fixed end date needed for Afghan war
— msnbc.msn.com — President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline to end the war in Afghanistan. (more) Karzai: Fixed end date needed for Afghan war

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washingtonindependent.com - 11/25/2008
Karzai — Whoa! — Calls for a Timetable to End the Afghanistan War
— washingtonindependent.com — To call this unexpected is really quite an understatement. From the Associated Press: President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline to end the war in ... (more) Karzai — Whoa! — Calls for a Timetable to End the ...

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Bill Roggio: Clear and Present Danger
Victory Caucus -- All Content — ... Saturday, 22 November 2008 The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guant namo are there for good reason. Originally published in The Weekly Standard. read ...

Clear and Present Danger
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — ... to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Associated Press, the intelligence contained in the files was largely ignored by the mainstream press for more than two years. Thus, the New York Times reported only the day before the recent presidential election that the files contain "sobering intelligence claims against many of the remaining detainees." Indeed, they do. When the Obama administration reviews the Guantánamo files, here is what it will find. Read the entire article it's worth your time. Posted by George Moneo at November 24, 2008 08:39 AM Comments ...

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