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swampland.blogs.time.com - 1/22/2009
The AL Qaeda Campaign
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This is how it should be done. The Bush Administration derided the "police work" approach to rolling up Al Qaeda, but--of course--police work is precisely what it takes in many cases. (In war zones, like Waziristan, more kinetic tactics, like the use of armed Predator drones, is also ...

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Political Animal:  Intelligence gathering and law enforcement

google.com - 1/24/2009
AFP: Two ex-Guantanamo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video
— google.com — 3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) Two men released from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported. One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man ... (more) AFP: Two ex-Guantanamo inmates appear in Al-Qaeda video

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Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment
washingtontimes.com - 1/20/2009
Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment
— washingtontimes.com — Biological or chemical weapons Eli Lake ( Contact ) Originally published 07:43 p.m., January 19, 2009, updated 05:45 a.m., January 20, 2009 An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier this month after an experiment with unconventional ... (more) Al Qaeda bungles arms experiment

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washingtonpost.com - 1/25/2009
To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults

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Intelligence gathering and law enforcement
Political Animal — ... U.S. intelligence officials sitting in a nearby car. [...] "We have reasons to believe that we got the right man who had played a role in the 2005 attacks in London," said one official, who said he received the information from security agents in Peshawar. Hmm, U.S. intelligence cooperating with Pakistani police captured a dangerous terrorist suspect. Success, in other words, was dependent on international cooperation, law enforcement, and intelligence gathering. What a concept. As Joe Klein noted , "One hopes that with less public melodrama, less Presidential bloodlust ...

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