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- Trial by Fire: How Military Commissions Work and Why They Fail - Brookings Institution
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  More than six years after the Bush administration first introduced military commissions, finally we will learn whether they offer a plausible means of trying terrorists or whether the system really is the total flop it has seemed to be so far.
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- Nation & World | Damage From U.S. Extremists a Concern | Seattle Times Newspaper
  Posted by okami from Seattle Times
  When it comes to fears about a terrorist attack, people in the U.S. usually focus on Osama bin Laden and foreign-based radical groups. Yet researchers say domestic extremists who commit violence in the name of their cause _ abortion or the environment, for example _ account for most of the damage from such incidents in this country.
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- Reason Magazine - Open-Source Warfare
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  “Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?”
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- RAND | News Release | United States Lacks the Capability to Counter Insurgency in the Muslim World
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  Recognizing that the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will not be the last of their kind, a new RAND Corporation study issued today finds that U.S. capabilities to meet the threat of Islamist insurgencies are seriously deficient and out of balance.
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- Iran: Certainty Declines in U.S. Intelligence Reports
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  Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, the U.S. government regularly stated in a variety of forums that Iran possessed a large undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons (CW) and a substantial production capability. . .
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- Terrorist use of the Internet
  Posted by okami from Spacewar
  Lawmakers in the United States and elsewhere should not to try to censor Islamic extremists' use of the Internet, says a new report from a global think tank.
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- OPINION FEATURE: American torture past and present
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  Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom. This was the language that, when coupled with expanding military and commercial ambitions, had helped launch two very different wars. The
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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

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