by Paul Woodward
01.11.2010
The looming war in Gaza: Can Obama stop it before it starts? By Bradley Burston, Haaretz, January 11, 2010 Next week, or the week after, Barack Obama may well see intelligence reports of tank battalions moving south and west along Israeli highways, and whole infantry brigades setting up camp in the western Negev. The countdown [...]
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by Paul Woodward
01.11.2010
Cracks in the jihad By Thomas Rid, The Wilson Quarterly, Winter, 2010 “Get ready for all Muslims to join the holy war against you,” the jihadi leader Abd el-Kader warned his Western enemies. The year was 1839, and nine years into France’s occupation of Algeria the resistance had grown self-confident. Only weeks earlier, Arab fighters [...]
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The other plot to wreck America
by Paul Woodward 01.10.2010The other plot to wreck America By Frank Rich, New York Times, January 10, 2010 There may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we’ve all become counterterrorists. But [...]