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[Autoblogging Information] American Security Project Report Finds Progress In Iraq and the War ...: While the Iraq troop surge has made important tactical improvements on the ground and has marginalized al Qaeda there, incidents of jihadist violence have continued to increase around the world, according to data from the National Counter Terrorism Center. Jihadist terrorist incidents worldwide have nearly doubled from 2005 to 2007, even after excluding attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan and those related to ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence.

[MoJo Articles | Mother Jones] How US Taxpayers Got Plucked in Iraq | Mother Jones: The US Department of Agriculture representative from Baghdad visiting the plant with us said the solution was to spend more money: $20,000 to pay a contractor to get license plates for the four Hyundai trucks outside in the parking lot facing Mecca. Our initial grant did not include licensing the vehicles we bought.

[The 4th Media] The Al Qaeda Legend : Wither The “Global War on Terrorism”? Part I: In turn, large scale military campaigns have been waged in several countries as part of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The wars on Afghanistan and Iraq were conducted under the banner of the Global War on Terrorism. Both the Afghan and Iraqi governments were identified as “state sponsors of terrorism”.

[The Political Surf] Cheney is right. Obama owes President Bush an apology | The ...: But Cheney is correct that Obama’s rhetoric on how Bush fought the War on Terror is hypocritical. In fact, Obama has used five times the amount of predator drones that Bush utilized and under Obama’s watch, 1,100 persons, al-Qaida and other terrorists, have died from U.S. drone attacks.

[GlobalResearch.ca] The Al Qaeda Legend : Wither The "Global War on Terrorism"?: In the inner consciousness of Americans, the attacks of September 11, 2001 justify acts of war and conquest, directed against the State sponsors of terrorism, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.   

[Centurean2's Weblog] Terrorist Op-Ed: Libya's Al Qaeda Rebel Commander Writes Column ...: Belhaj, for those that don’t know, is a founding member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an official Al Qaeda affiliate, and listed by both the US State Department [2] and the United Kingdom Home Office [3] as a foreign terrorist organization and proscribed terrorist organization respectively. LIFG was the subject of a lengthy report issued by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center [4] regarding foreign fighters turning up in Iraq killing US and British soldiers, LIFG and more specifically, the Benghazi-Darnah region of Libya lending more fighters to Iraq per-capita than any other nation, including Saudi Arabia.

[War On Terror News] American Forces Network in Iraq last day on air - War On Terror News: BAGHDAD - American Forces Network Radio - Iraq, the radio network run by U.S. troops deployed to Baghdad, plans to fill its final day of broadcasting in support of Operation New Dawn with events and special guest appearances by service members, U.S. civilians, Iraqi counterparts and several surprise guests here, Sept. 23.

[Veteran's Legal Support Center Blog] Ghosts of Iraq war still haunt RI veteran struggling with PTSD: And her early experiences with DiRaimo and other veterans and their families moved her to initiate the inter-agency study that produced “The Rhode Island Blueprint: Addressing the Needs of Returning Soldiers and Their Families,” a statewide plan to help the men and women who have fought the post-9/11 wars. It has become a national model, she says, recognized by the Department of Defense.

[Centurean2's Weblog] And We Thought We Were Free | Centurean2?s Weblog: In that regard, as I watch the TSA security fiasco unfold as well as George W Bush and Dick Cheney’s recent book tours ~ where they rationalize their illegal wars and economic rape of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as justify torture as a means to this criminal end ~ I immediately think of Milton Mayer’s classic THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE (The Germans 1933 - 1945).

[Longshot's Blog] Hank Williams Jr. Puts A White Sheet and Hood On For America ...: So it was OK to declare war in Iraq where we lost over 4,000 American troops lives, but now they are upset over a single terrorist death because he was American born? Or is it the fact that their President didn’t get Bin Laden or any other terrorist who has followed.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Harvest of Hypocrisy? UK Opium Poppy ... - Centurean2´s Weblog: Still, the public–desperate for the change in direction promised by the Obama administration–have been happy to fill in with their imagination what the new president has failed to deliver in reality. In a feat of doublethink so Orwellian that we can imagine Orwell himself would scarcely have believed it, there are many people who will say that Obama has ended the Iraq war.

[The American Spectator and The Spectacle Blog] The American Spectator : The War on Terror Drones On: If they are not uniformed, but they are an actualcombatant (Milligan, for example, was blowing things up himself)and they are captured on an active battlefield (defined by the UScourts to mean a place where US troops are actively engaged inbattle and no courts are open and operating) then they can besubjected to a different kind of commission, a commission ofnecessity established based on the lack of an operating judicialsystem with jurisdiction. If they are an actual combatant but not amember of an entity against whom the US Congress has declared war(and AQAP, created in 2009, isn’t such an entity) and they are noton what the US courts called a battlefield and what Goldsmith/Brennan are NOW redefining as a “hot” battlefield (so as to stilluse “battlefield” rationale on locales that are otherwise excludedfrom the legal definition of battlefield) then they can still besubject of a capture (or kill) operation if they pose an imminentthreat of danger to “the US” (i.e., it is an “absolute necessity”for self defense purposes to kill them).

[MarkCz.com: Blog] 9/11: Iraq erased from 'War on Terror'? - Blog - MarkCz.com: You have to imagine that the families of the 4,792 military fatalities in Iraq would be troubled to know that their loved ones are no longer included in the “War on Terror.” Similarly upset might be those injured or otherwise harmed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[Community] This is a war and attacks are justified - - Community: And there is good news that al-Qaida’s affiliate in Iraq has been severely weakened by a money squeeze, internal squabbling, a shortage of volunteer suicide bombers and more effective Iraqi efforts to snatch the terror group’s foreign recruits when they slip across the border from Syria.

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