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McClatchy provides a summary of the annual State Department Country Reports on Terrorism (more below). Something to keep in mind as the most recent PR campaign to extend the war in Afghanistan (to enter its second decade shortly) is underway. That would be a war that we “must” extend at a cost of hundreds of billions, [...] Global Security Newswire reports that the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) wants to protect itself from incoming missiles using a “directed energy” system. “Lasers are weapons of the future. We can, for instance, use laser beams to shoot down an enemy missile in its boost or terminal phase,” the Times of India [...] I haven’t agreed much with Jeffrey Goldberg lately, but on the Cordoba House, he has been excellent: “The Cordoba Initiative, which is headed by an imam named Feisal Abdul Rauf, is an enemy of al Qaeda, no less than Rudolph Giuliani and the Anti-Defamation League are enemies of al Qaeda. Bin Laden would sooner [...] Nicole Belle attempts to beat back some of the misinformation surrounding the GOP’s recent cause celebre: opposition to the expansion of the community center run by a moderate Muslim group a few blocks from the World Trade Center. First and foremost, the Cordoba House is not a mosque as Muslims generally use the term. There [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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