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	<title>War in Context &#187; Al Qaeda</title>
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		<title>In Pakistan lack of opportunity fuels radicalism</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/28/in-pakistan-lack-of-opportunity-fuels-radicalism/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/28/in-pakistan-lack-of-opportunity-fuels-radicalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times on how talent, stripped of opportunity, is feeding radicalism in Pakistan:
Umar Kundi was his parents’ pride, an ambitious young man from a small town who made it to medical school in the big city. It seemed like a story of working-class success, living proof in this unequal society that a telephone [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "In Pakistan lack of opportunity fuels radicalism", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/28/in-pakistan-lack-of-opportunity-fuels-radicalism/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s take-no-prisoners approach</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/14/obamas-take-no-prisoners-approach/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/14/obamas-take-no-prisoners-approach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, when President Obama signed his executive order to close Guantanamo he said: &#8220;the message we are sending around the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism, and we are going to do so vigilantly; we are going to do so effectively; and we [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obama&#8217;s take-no-prisoners approach", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/14/obamas-take-no-prisoners-approach/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How to talk to a jihadist</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/03/how-to-talk-to-a-jihadist/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/03/how-to-talk-to-a-jihadist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan:
Watching senators and pundits huff and puff about Mirandizing terrorists when they should apparently be declared enemy combatants and tortured at length is a depressing spectacle. To see political leaders in the West have such a low view of the American judicial system and such an elevated view of the world-historical significance of these [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to talk to a jihadist", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/03/how-to-talk-to-a-jihadist/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the defense and oil industries must be in love with Iran and al Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/why-the-defense-and-oil-industries-must-be-in-love-with-iran-and-al-qaeda/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/why-the-defense-and-oil-industries-must-be-in-love-with-iran-and-al-qaeda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is quietly working with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to speed up arms sales and rapidly upgrade defenses for oil terminals and other key infrastructure in a bid to thwart future military attacks by Iran, according to former and current U.S. and Middle Eastern government officials.
The initiatives, including a U.S.-backed [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why the defense and oil industries must be in love with Iran and al Qaeda", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/why-the-defense-and-oil-industries-must-be-in-love-with-iran-and-al-qaeda/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The return of the neocons</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/24/the-return-of-the-neocons/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/24/the-return-of-the-neocons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The return of the neocons
By David Margolick, Newsweek, January 22, 2010
Technically, there is nothing &#8220;neo&#8221; about conservatives like Robert Kagan, the historian and another Washington Post columnist, or John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary; each is a son of one of neoconservatism&#8217;s founding fathers. Indeed, no strain in American politics is so dynastic. It is [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The return of the neocons", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/24/the-return-of-the-neocons/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Man claims terror ties in Little Rock shooting</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/22/man-claims-terror-ties-in-little-rock-shooting/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/22/man-claims-terror-ties-in-little-rock-shooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man claims terror ties in Little Rock shooting
By James Dao, New York Times, January 22, 2010
A Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Man claims terror ties in Little Rock shooting", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/22/man-claims-terror-ties-in-little-rock-shooting/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligence chief says FBI was too hasty in handling of attempted bombing</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/21/intelligence-chief-says-fbi-was-too-hasty-in-handling-of-attempted-bombing/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/21/intelligence-chief-says-fbi-was-too-hasty-in-handling-of-attempted-bombing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intelligence chief says FBI was too hasty in handling of attempted bombing
By Spencer S. Hsu and Jennifer Agiesta, Washington Post, January 21, 2010
The man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day should have been interrogated by special terrorism investigators instead of FBI agents, the nation&#8217;s intelligence chief said Wednesday, adding [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Intelligence chief says FBI was too hasty in handling of attempted bombing", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/21/intelligence-chief-says-fbi-was-too-hasty-in-handling-of-attempted-bombing/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Aafia Siddiqui goes on trial</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/19/dr-aafia-siddiqui-goes-on-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/19/dr-aafia-siddiqui-goes-on-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Aafia Siddiqui goes on trial
By Paul Woodward, The National, January 19, 2010
As Dr Aafia Siddiqui goes on trial in a federal court in New York City her case is unknown to most Americans yet in her native Pakistan the frail neuroscientist, mother of three and reputed al Qa&#8217;eda associate has become a cause célèbre.
Last [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Dr Aafia Siddiqui goes on trial", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/19/dr-aafia-siddiqui-goes-on-trial/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/17/elite-us-troops-ready-to-combat-pakistani-nuclear-hijacks/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/17/elite-us-troops-ready-to-combat-pakistani-nuclear-hijacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks
By Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times, January 17, 2010
The US army is training a crack unit to seal off and snatch back Pakistani nuclear weapons in the event that militants, possibly from inside the country’s security apparatus, get their hands on a nuclear device or materials that [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Elite US troops ready to combat Pakistani nuclear hijacks", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/17/elite-us-troops-ready-to-combat-pakistani-nuclear-hijacks/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide attack reveals threat to Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan plan</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/15/suicide-attack-reveals-threat-to-obamas-afghanistan-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suicide attack reveals threat to Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan plan
By Saeed Shah, McClatchy, January 14, 2010
The bombing has focused new attention on the Haqqani network, an Afghan insurgent group that U.S. intelligence officials said is based in North Waziristan, has ties to members of the Pakistani military&#8217;s Inter-Services Intelligence agency and probably played a key role in [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Suicide attack reveals threat to Obama&#8217;s Afghanistan plan", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/15/suicide-attack-reveals-threat-to-obamas-afghanistan-plan/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Yemen clerics warn US to stay out or face jihad</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/15/yemen-clerics-warn-us-to-stay-out-or-face-jihad/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/15/yemen-clerics-warn-us-to-stay-out-or-face-jihad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yemen clerics warn US to stay out or face jihad
By Mohammed al Qadhi, The National, January 14, 2010
Yemen’s association of clerics warned yesterday they would call for jihad in the case of foreign military intervention amid growing concern that the United States might carry out direct strikes against al Qa’eda militants in the country.
“If any [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Yemen clerics warn US to stay out or face jihad", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/15/yemen-clerics-warn-us-to-stay-out-or-face-jihad/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>George W. Obama</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/14/george-w-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/14/george-w-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George W. Obama
By Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, January 12, 2010
Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "George W. Obama", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/14/george-w-obama/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How I fought the intelligence turf wars &#8212; and lost</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/12/how-i-fought-the-intelligence-turf-wars-and-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How I fought the intelligence turf wars &#8212; and lost
By Ron Capps, Foreign Policy, January 11, 2010
In recent weeks, following the shocks of the Christmas Day bomber and the Dec. 30 attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan, observers have tried to understand why U.S. intelligence failed so badly. President Barack Obama argued that the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How I fought the intelligence turf wars &#8212; and lost", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/12/how-i-fought-the-intelligence-turf-wars-and-lost/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Al Qaeda’s shadowland</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/12/al-qaeda%e2%80%99s-shadowland/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/12/al-qaeda%e2%80%99s-shadowland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Qaeda’s shadowland
By Edmund J Hill, New York Times, January 12, 2010
Americans are scrambling to understand Yemen, where Al Qaeda has recently surged and the Christmas Day plot against Northwest Flight 253 was hatched. It’s not easy. Yemen has 5,000 years of history, complicated politics and daunting economic challenges. But we’ve made it more difficult [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Al Qaeda’s shadowland", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/12/al-qaeda%e2%80%99s-shadowland/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t panic. Fear is al-Qaeda&#8217;s real goal</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/11/dont-panic-fear-is-al-qaedas-real-goal/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/11/dont-panic-fear-is-al-qaedas-real-goal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t panic. Fear is al-Qaeda&#8217;s real goal
By Fareed Zacharia, Washington Post, January 11, 2010
On Christmas an al-Qaeda affiliate launched an operation using one person, with no special target, and a failed technique tried eight years ago by &#8220;shoe bomber&#8221; Richard Reid. The plot seems to have been an opportunity that the group seized rather than [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Don&#8217;t panic. Fear is al-Qaeda&#8217;s real goal", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/11/dont-panic-fear-is-al-qaedas-real-goal/" });</script>]]></description>
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