The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: Russia Test-fires ‘Voevoda’ Intercontinental Missile 12/24/09 AF: Taliban issue video of captive US soldier 12/25/09 AF: Troops Secure Former Taliban Ghost Town in Afghanistan 12/25/09 YE: Yemen is growing front in Al Qaida battle 12/23/09 Below the fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime
To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East By SCOTT ATRAN December 13, 2009 Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, John Jay College and the University of Michigan, is the author of the forthcoming ‘Listen to the Devil.’ Confidence is important, but we also have to recognize that …
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The Battle for Tora Bora How Osama bin Laden slipped from our grasp: The definitive account. PeterBergen I am convinced that Tora Bora constitutes one of the greatest military blunders in recent U.S. history. It is worth revisiting now not just in the interest of historical accuracy, but also because the story contains valuable lessons …
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Hot Topics AA: Ethiopians Dominate Flood Of Africans to Yemen 12/18/09 AA: Guineans flee to Senegal 12/18/09 AA: Radical Islam meets a buffer in West Africa 12/21/09 AO: Crude rises ahead of OPEC meeting 12/21/09 ER: The Case of Eritrea’s Missing Soccer Team 12/16/09 KE: Obama ignores brutality and corruption in Kenya 12/17/09 NG: Nigeria: …
Hot Topics AA: Lockheed Martin wins huge NZ Defence deal 12/15/09 AA: US general says N. Korean attack would hurt Seoul 12/19/09 AU: Joining China and Iran, Australia to Filter Internet 12/15/09 BD: Bangladesh police forces criticised 12/15/09 CN: China Says Asylum – Seeking Uighurs Suspected Criminals 12/15/09 CN: Leading China dissident to be tried …
USAID: Understaffed and overwhelmed in Afghanistan Obama’s troop surge fails to address how to improve delivery of aid. A dramatic shortage of program officers as well as auditors and investigators and poor security conditions on the ground have all conspired, the 128-page report concludes, to “significantly impair” the objectives of USAID’s mission, which is to …
A 9/11 in Indonesia: JI’s planned aviation attack: info Noordin Top’s laptop Countering terrorist ideology: the ideological response unit (Singapore) Global (Terrorism) Pathfinder (Singapore) The ICPVTR Terrorism Database – Global Pathfinder – is a one-stop repository for information on the current and emerging terrorist threat. The database focuses on terrorism and political violence in the …
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