Tag: international affairs
member name: Charlie D.
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June 06, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
Subject: Muqtada al-Sadr, Threats and Possibilities ...
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:31:36 -0800
The day before yesterday, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered
his Mahdi army to fight America's . . .
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June 10, 2007 06:19 PM EDT --
As the President moves to veto only his second piece
of legislation in six years because it doesn't give him
(and presumably the generals in Baghdad) a free hand
in the Iraq situation, it would . . .
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June 06, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
At present, the US on the ground in Iraq, the
State and Defense Departments are all denying
any Turkish action is occurring in Iraq, as is
the Iraqi government. However, CNN is
reporting that such is occurring, . . .
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June 06, 2007 11:24 PM EDT --
The book is called What Terrorists Want: Understanding
the Enemy, Containing the Threat by Louise Richardson of
Harvard (2006). The excerpt is from Chapter 8 of that book,
entitled "What is . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:14 PM EDT --
The AP, in the person of Charles Hanley, reported
yesterday that Turkish troops are massing on the
Iraqi border across from the Iraqi Kurdish area,
and that insurgents/"saboteurs" have blown . . .
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June 07, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
I'm a child of the nuclear age, born two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki; nuclear weapons have always been around in my lifetime. My generation is the first to ever been able to say this about the . . .
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June 12, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
One of my list members asked me today what
I thought about the Alexander Litvinenko case.
After looking up both the articles still another
list member pointed out to me earlier today . . .
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June 19, 2007 12:01 AM EDT --
This is a somewhat murky area for me, as I do
not completely understand why Palestinians are
so bitterly divided, or exactly what the appeal is
for Hamas, given the international community's . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:53 PM EDT --
This was my eightieth completed book of
the year, (on 10 February, after five days
of fairly intensive reading) called The Great
War for Civilization, The Conquest . . .
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June 12, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
NPR had a story on this morning that I had
noticed in recent weeks from other sources,
alleged Al Qaeda in Iraq's increasing attacks
on key bridges throughout the country.
Eight of these have occurred . . .
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July 03, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
Several lists that I am a part of have
produced some eloquent haikus and
commentary about the anniversary of
the first atom bomb being dropped on
Hiroshima sixty years ago today. I am
not that eloquent, . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
I got in a tussle with a student in my new
history class over our "ally" Saudi Arabia,
whom I consider a faithless and greedy
"friend" only when it suits them to be so.
This is . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:30 PM EDT --
The full title of this 2006 book by Matthew Carr, a
journalist and broadcaster, is The Infernal Machine,
A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar
Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. This is my 280th . . .
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