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bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 5 hours ago
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A stable and enduring peace can only emerge
once Afghanistan is closed down as a theatre of
strategic competition between India and Pakistan. And this can only be achieved when the issues that motivate and sustain that competition are resolved......
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A Temporary Peace?
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commentarymagazine.com - 10 hours ago
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There is something both pathetic and infuriating about
the head-scratching and obfuscation going on in the wake
of the Ft. Hood massacre. “What could be the motive?” mull the chin strokers in the Washington Post forum. The editors caution ...
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Playing Dumb
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Afghanistan Latest Blog Posts
Obama nearing decision to send more troops to Afghanistan
2 hours ago at Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
DITHERING TOWARD KABUL: OBAMA TO SEND HALF OF MCCHRYSTAL'S REQUEST
3 hours ago at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Pathetic. Obamba's a girly-man.
3 hours ago at Random Jottings
FIASCOBAMA
4 hours ago at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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mudvillegazette.com - 12 hours ago
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First this : COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The
Air Force Academy will hold a moment of silence
in honor of the shooting victims at Fort Hood before Saturday's Army-Air Force football game. Academy spokesman Troy Garnhart says the observance will also honor soldiers from nearby Fort Carson ...
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Air Force vs Army
politicalbyline.com - 8 hours ago
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website/blog at www.diversitylane.com or go directly to the blog
at www.diversitylane.wordpress.com . See Cartoons by Cartoon by Nate Beeler – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com – Email this Cartoon ...
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Cartoons of the Day
themoderatevoice.com - 21 hours ago
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Miss Kimberly Munley, the mother of a three-year-old
daughter, and a civie policewoman, is in stable condition,
with injuries to the upper leg and thigh. General Cone said her fearless response to gunman at Fort Hood, had saved countless lives. Trained in active-response tactics, she rushed ...
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Policewoman and Mother Kimberly Munley, Engaged Major ...
m.apnews.com - 38 hours ago
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - An Army psychiatrist
suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort
Hood cleaned out his apartment in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, a neighbor said Friday. The neighbor, Patricia Villa, said Maj. ...
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Neighbor: Fort Hood suspect emptied his apartment
newsrealblog.com - 42 hours ago
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A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising
Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is
a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that ...
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Our Brain Dead Country
thehill.com - 37 hours ago
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A top Republican congressional recruit said on Friday
that the shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas yesterday by
a solider allegedly sympathetic to suicide bombers shows that the "enemy is infiltrating our military." Allen West (R-Fla.), a retired military ...
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Top GOP recruit says Ft. Hood shooting shows 'enemy is ...
rightofcourse.com - 26 hours ago
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When I wrote my first entry on the
shooting at Fort Hood , I didn’t want to
impute a motive yet. Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim, but he is also a Major in the United States Army. I thought it unlikely that a man like that could be building up to a premeditated jihadist incident ...
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Major Nidal Malik Hasan strikes a blow against his ...
althouse.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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althouse.blogspot.com —
The word "dithering" has really attached itself to
Obama. Remember the way Bush opponents tried get the
word "quagmire" stuck on him? It's an interesting political strategy, sticking a word on a guy.
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Dithering Obama.
mypetjawa.mu.nu - 15 hours ago
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It's a mystery. Probably one that will never
be solved:Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort
Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" before...
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AP Unclear What Motivated Devout Muslim Shouting "Allahu ...
newsbusters.org - 17 hours ago
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As reports of the Fort Hood shooting began
to pour in yesterday, numerous news outlets neglected to
mention that the shooter is a Muslim. Either the potential import of this fact was completely lost on these journalists, or they omitted the shooter's ...
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LAT Jumps on PC Bandwagon, Ignores Islamic Beliefs of ...
adnkronos.com - 24 hours ago
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Islamabad, 6 Nov. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem
Shahzad - The United States put pressure on Afghan
president Hamid Karzai's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, to withdraw from the country's presidential race and hand victory to Karzai, sources have told Adnkronos ...
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Afghanistan: Karzai rival 'withdrew under US pressure'
atimes.com - 37 hours ago
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US puts its faith in Pakistan's military By
Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD - Abdullah Abdullah, who this
week withdrew from the presidential election runoff in Afghanistan, thereby handing victory to the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, did so under pressure ...
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Asia Times Online
mudvillegazette.com - 38 hours ago
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According to ABC , President Obama will make
his first visit to Walter Reed as Commander in
Chief tomorrow: White House officials tell ABC News that President Obama will visit with wounded soldiers tomorrow at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The trip was scheduled before the incident today at ...
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Aftermath
youtube.com - 2 days ago
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On the 1950th day of the War in
Afghanistan, Rep. Eric Massa went to the floor of
the House of Representatives and called for an end.
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Rep. Eric Massa calls for a conclusion to the war in ...
fivefeetoffury.com - 42 hours ago
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Horowitz writes: ...despite his identification with America’s enemies,
the army kept him in its officer corps. How
in God’s name was this possible? But it was. And so, after calling America the “aggressor” in Afghanistan and Iraq this Muslim jihadist ...
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David Horowitz: 'Our Brain Dead Country'
balloon-juice.com - 24 hours ago
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I have to admit that I don’t have
a very strong opinion about Afghanistan. I don’t understand
the situation at all, I understand that, unlike Iraq, there may have been good reasons to go in, and I also understand that those reasons may or ...
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Afghanistan
news.bbc.co.uk - 35 hours ago
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Andrew North BBC correspondent in Kabul After a
particularly bad week for British troops here, Gordon Brown
is keen to switch the pressure on to President Hamid Karzai. It's part of a concerted international effort to force him to change his ways in ...
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Brown warns Karzai on corruption
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 34 hours ago
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A witness has told investigators that the Army
major who allegedly opened fire on his fellow soldiers
at Ft. Hood Army Base Thursday shouted "Allahu Akbar" -- Arabic for "God is Great" and the rallying cry of suicide ...
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Gunman shouted 'Allah Akbar' before opening fire, ...
