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A Temporary Peace?

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:59:21 +0000

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......

Scott Green posted 5 hours ago from bluecontrarian.blogspot.com

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Playing Dumb

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:49:35 +0000

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 that we shouldn’t be “jumping to ...

Swampland found this 10 hours ago on commentarymagazine.com

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Air Force vs Army

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:36:08 +0000

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 ...

Greyhawk posted 12 hours ago from mudvillegazette.com

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Cartoons of the Day

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:33:41 +0000

See No Evil? For more fun visit the 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 ...

Patrick Adkins posted 8 hours ago from politicalbyline.com

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Policewoman and Mother Kimberly Munley, Engaged Major Hassan, Shot Him Four Times, Returning Fire Even After He Shot Her in Both Legs

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:59:42 +0000

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 ...

tsteels2 posted 21 hours ago from themoderatevoice.com

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Neighbor: Fort Hood suspect emptied his apartment

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:28:39 +0000

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. Nidal Malik Hasan came over to her apartment ...

Instapundit found this 38 hours ago on m.apnews.com

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Our Brain Dead Country

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:58:52 +0000

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 he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the ...

five feet of fury. (i got yer backlash ... found this 42 hours ago on newsrealblog.com

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Top GOP recruit says Ft. Hood shooting shows 'enemy is infiltrating our military'

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:20:00 +0000

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 colonel who served as a commander at the Texas ...

Sense of Events found this 37 hours ago on thehill.com

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Major Nidal Malik Hasan strikes a blow against his oppressors

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:20:37 +0000

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 ...

Chance posted 26 hours ago from rightofcourse.com

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Dithering Obama.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:12:06 +0000

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.

Instapundit found this 9 days ago on althouse.blogspot.com

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AP Unclear What Motivated Devout Muslim Shouting "Allahu Akbar" to Kill

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000

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...

Doug Ross @ Journal found this 15 hours ago on mypetjawa.mu.nu

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LAT Jumps on PC Bandwagon, Ignores Islamic Beliefs of Ft. Hood Shooter

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:37:33 +0000

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 Muslim affiliations out of a concern for ...

Cold Fury found this 17 hours ago on newsbusters.org

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Afghanistan: Karzai rival 'withdrew under US pressure'

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:55:00 +0000

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 International (AKI). Sources said the American ...

Gates of Vienna found this 24 hours ago on adnkronos.com

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Asia Times Online

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:12:10 +0000

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 from the United States, Asia Times Online has ...

Hot Air » Top Picks found this 37 hours ago on atimes.com

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Aftermath

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:16:35 +0000

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 ...

Greyhawk posted 38 hours ago from mudvillegazette.com

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Rep. Eric Massa calls for a conclusion to the war in Afghanistan (video)

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:39:27 +0000

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.

Suburban Guerrilla found this 2 days ago on youtube.com

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David Horowitz: 'Our Brain Dead Country'

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:58:52 +0000

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 ...

Kathy Shaidle posted 42 hours ago from fivefeetoffury.com

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Afghanistan

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:33:50 +0000

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 may not have anything to do with whether or ...

Corrente found this 24 hours ago on balloon-juice.com

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Brown warns Karzai on corruption

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:17:50 +0000

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 his next five-year term. But by saying he's ...

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com found this 35 hours ago on news.bbc.co.uk

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Gunman shouted 'Allah Akbar' before opening fire, witness says. Will the rampage affect Obama's decision?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:48:36 +0000

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 bombers around the world -- before ...

Little Green Footballs found this 34 hours ago on latimesblogs.latimes.com

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