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- Trial by Fire: How Military Commissions Work and Why They Fail - Brookings Institution
  Posted by okami
  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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- DoD Watchers Mull the Next President
  Posted by okami from Military
  Kansas City Star | By Scott Canon | February 20, 2008 Truman had MacArthur. Kennedy stumbled into the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush returned the force of nature that is Donald Rumsfeld to the Pentagon. Whoever becomes the next commander in chief will wade into the sometimes uneasy world where admirals and generals cross paths, and sometimes swords, with presidents.
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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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- Reason Magazine - Open-Source Warfare
  Posted by okami from Reason
  “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
  Posted by okami
  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
  Posted by okami
  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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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

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