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Institute for Policy Studies: Iraq War Entering Year Six: Multiple Crises Rising in Middle East

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Gaza is under murderous assault and the United States is escalating regional threats while pushing new sanctions against Iran.

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The Year in Hate

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The latest annual count of hate groups operating in the United States rose to 888 last year, capping a 48 percent increase since 2000.

(THESE are the terrorists Americans should be worrying about.)

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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

Posted by okami from GovExec

America's national security institutions have failed and the military has been left holding the bag in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan, conducting nation-building tasks for which it is ill-suited, according to the final report of a House Armed Services Committee panel established in 2007 to examine military roles and missions.

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Rapid Pentagon Report on Saddam's Iraq Censored?

Posted by okami from Blogs.abcnews

ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention.  This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online.

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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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UK apology over rendition flights

Posted by okami from BBC News

David Miliband has admitted two US "extraordinary rendition" flights landed on UK territory in 2002. The foreign secretary said in both cases US planes refuelled on the UK dependent territory of Diego Garcia.

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Rigged Trials at Guantanamo

Posted by okami from Truth Out

The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes - and seeking the death penalty for all of them.

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