salon.com - 3/30/2009
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The president sounds like he's channeling Cheney or McCain -- or a Cold War hawk afraid of international communism -- when he talks about the war in Afghanistan.
radionetherlands.nl - 4/3/2009
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radionetherlands.nl —
Failed suicide bomb attack in Yemen Published: Wednesday
18 March 2009 11:00 UTC Last updated: Wednesday 18...
March 2009 13:10 UTC A man in Yemen has carried out a failed suicide bomb attack on a South Korean delegation. The South Koreans were in ...
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longwarjournal.org - 3/28/2009
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longwarjournal.org —
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit
in an internet statement Friday for a pair of...
suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A ...
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Yemen's three terror fronts
armiesofliberation.com - 4/2/2009
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armiesofliberation.com —
The lack of judicial processes leads tribes to
take matters in their own hands. I'm surprised there...
were there after the murders in Sahibam. The Dutch are longtime donors to Yemen. Sana'a, Yemen - Yemeni tribesmen holding a Dutch couple hostage said on Wednesday they would release them if two ...
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Another Foreigner Kidnapping in Yemen
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Juan Cole: Obama's Domino Theory
The Latest on Air America —
... have a long history of dissidence, feuding and rebellion, which is now being branded Talibanism and configured as a dire menace to the Western way of life. Obama has added yet another domino theory to the history of Washington's justifications for massive military interventions in Asia. When a policymaker gets the rationale for action wrong, he is at particular risk of falling into mission creep and stubborn commitment to a doomed and unnecessary enterprise. Originally posted on Salon . More News from Air America : ...
The Af/Pak Plan: Mind The Gaps
Newshoggers.com —
... administration, overseen by Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute" but Zelikow has a list of "blanks" in the strategy as released and says it's impossible to evaluate the prospects for that plan without filling them in. The first five, in order of importance, are all about Pakistan. The most worrying blank he identifies for me is that the Obama administration has no articulated policy for "how the United States would attempt to enforce its nominal benchmarks on Pakistani actions."
Meanwhile Juan Cole, writing at Salon, says Obama has invented a new Domino Theory. ...
"Unrealistic Planning" In Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com —
... of militant Islamic victory, starting with Pakistan. Yet the notion that the Taliban could somehow take over Pakistan - which has a 650,000 strong, well-equipped, army - has always been ludicrous. That isn't the same, however, as the argument that the cenetr of gravity of Al Qaeda operations has shifted across the border. It has - ...
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longwarjournal.org 1/26/2009 —
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