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LETTER: Perpetual War Not Answer To Terrorism
President Obama's speech Thursday was one of the greatest and most logical cases made against justifying war as a solution to terrorism [May 24, news, "Obama Curbs Drone Strategy"]. His speech made the clearest distinction between terrorist...Tags: Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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On Benghazi, Obama vs. Republicans again
This post has been updated as indicated below.Maybe because President Obama said so many other things in his speech Thursday -- about drones, Guantanamo and a “new phase” in the war against terrorism -- a reference to Benghazi didn’t attract much attention. But, at the risk of over-...Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Politics, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Pakistan
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Drone program had largely run its course
WASHINGTON — President Obama took pains to place the new restrictions on targeted killings he announced Thursday into the context of a broad reappraisal of the nation's anti-terrorism effort. Drones are not "a cure-all for terrorism," he said in...Tags: Intel Corp., National Security, Barack Obama, Justice System, Elections
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British police arrest man after spy claim in soldier case
Reuters* Police investigate murder of soldier in London street * Friend tells BBC spies tried to recruit one of suspects * Counter-terrorism police arrest 31-year-old man at BBC * Interior ministry has no comment on veracity of claims By Peter Griffiths...Tags: BBC, Kenya, United Kingdom, David Cameron, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A new response in the war on terror
Better late than never, President Obama has moved to establish more rigorous standards for the targeted killings of Americans and foreigners alike away from a battlefield. The need for what he called "strong oversight of all lethal action" was one theme...
Tags: Barack Obama, Pakistan, U.S. Congress, Yemen, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Tunisian man charged in terrorist case
NEW YORK — A Tunisian citizen who prosecutors say radicalized one of the men accused of plotting to derail a Toronto-to-New York passenger train tried to obtain a U.S. work visa so he could help carry out terrorist attacks in this country, law...Tags: Interior Policy, Manhattan (New York City), Trials, Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'Fast & Furious 6' revels in childlike love of vehicular mayhem ★★★ 1/2
“Fast & Furious 6,” — which surely maxed out Universal’s tank-top budget for the year, and sustains its joyful, unpretentious ridiculousness so perfectly that I secretly hoped the “6” meant “hours long,”...
Tags: Telemundo (tv network), Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies, Paul Walker
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Editorial: Obama won't ground aerial strikes that kill terrorists. Good.
President Barack Obama has taken a lot of heat over America's targeting of terrorists overseas with lethal drone strikes. Critics argue that the secret CIA-run program provokes political backlash in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, outweighing the value of...
Tags: Justice System, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yemen
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...Tags: Robin Williams, BBC, Religious Conflicts, Boston Marathon, Immigration
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Obama's restrictions on drone program welcomed in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Obama’s commitment to scaling back the use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists could pave the way for improved relations between the United States and Pakistan, analysts and political leaders...
Tags: Islamabad (Pakistan), Barack Obama, Elections, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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London man hacked to death in apparent terror attack was soldier
LONDON -- As police scoured the attack site for evidence, authorities confirmed Thursday that a man who was hacked to death on a London street before horrified bystanders in an apparent terrorist assault was a member of Britain’s armed forces. The...Tags: Boris Johnson, Politics, BBC, Religion and Belief, United Kingdom
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How the unassimilated are transformed into terrorists
If you're the child of an immigrant, like me, or perhaps an immigrant yourself brought here as a child, you know what it's like to have one foot planted in the old world and the other planted in the new, in this amazing, sometimes frighteningly free...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Immigration, Migration, Unrest, Conflicts and War
May 25, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 25, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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May 23, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 24, 2013
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May 23, 2013
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May 8, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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