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		<title>Anwar al-Awlaki and the face of Western Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Anwar al-Awlaki Became the Face of Western Jihad by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens http://icsr.info/publications/papers/1315827595ICSRPaperAsAmericanAsApplePieHowAnwaralAwlakiBecametheFaceofWesternJihad.pdf &#160; An interesting study of al-Qaeda propaganda efforts within Western nations. Some points: &#160; Awlaki represents the most effective and refined version of his English speaking Salafi-jihadi predecessors, who has adapted more effectively to Western political and social culture. However, unlike his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=484&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the issue of CIA &#8216;vaccinations&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to news sources (and yet unconfirmed), CIA has used a fake vaccination program in order to obtain DNA samples from Bin Laden family members in the Abottabad area of Pakistan. The reason why this idea is appallingly stupid (if true), is obvious not only for the merits of worldwide vaccination campaigns, but in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=479&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Years since 9/11 &#8211; a look at al Qaeda and its subgroups</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[excellent conference organized by Steve Coll (author of Pulitzer prize winning Ghost Wars) Panel I: A Net Assessment of Al Qaeda Bruce Hoffman Director, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University Author, Inside Terrorism Peter Bergen Director, National Security Studies Program, New America Foundation Author, The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda Juan Zarate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=477&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Usama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaida insurgent group is killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from BBC May 2, 2011 The BBC&#8217;s Adam Brookes: US intelligence analysts believed the compound was &#8220;the sort of place that you might try to hide&#8221; Death of Bin Laden Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces in Pakistan, President Barack Obama has said. Bin Laden was killed in a ground [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=473&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>470 prisoners set free by pro-Taliban operation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Devastating news for the Afghan government, as well as Allied forces stationed in Kandahar. An operation that set this many prisoners free could not have been done without massive corruption and wheel-greasing. People were paid to look the other way, to open this or that gate, and not to fire or ring alarms when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=470&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban &#8216;justice&#8217;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ghosts of Alexander has an excellent write up on the recent Taliban stoning of a young unmarried couple, transgressing local Pashtun traditions and customs, and enforcing their own puritanical law. &#160; …the elders of the Mullah Quli village in the Archi district responded moderately. They held a meeting in which they decided if Khayyam’s family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=468&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nathaniel Fick and John Nagl on the &#8216;Long War&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ‘Long War’ May Be Getting Shorter By NATHANIEL FICK and JOHN NAGL reprinted from NY Times, Feb. 20th, 2011. &#160; Washington IT is hard to tell when momentum shifts in a counterinsurgency campaign, but there is increasing evidence that Afghanistan is moving in a more positive direction than many analysts think. It now seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=465&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Michael Sheuer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[over at Urban Infidel, a very interesting 5-part interview with the controversial former head of CIA&#8217;s &#8216;Bin Laden Unit&#8217;, Michael Sheuer. Some interesting comments by Mr.Sheuer regarding the perceived strength of American military in the Mid East, notably that although we are strong, we are not willing to fully commit in defending our interests and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=462&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan villages to setup local security groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afghan villages adopting a town-watch style security setup. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/afghanistan/2011-01-19-afghanselfdefense19_ST_N.htm The Afghan government has organized more than 2,000 villagers into armed local defense forces so they can keep out insurgents and support coalition and Afghan forces. The self-defense groups are part of an expanding U.S.-backed program that bears a resemblance to a similar tactic in Iraq [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=460&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haqqani network lies dormant in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NY Times, Dec. 26, 2010 &#160; Taliban Fighters Appear Quieted in Afghanistan By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON — The deadliest group of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has not conducted a complex large-scale attack in the capital city of Kabul for seven months, its momentum stymied as elite American-led commandos have escalated raids against the militants’ bomb [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=coincentral.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3887453&amp;post=457&amp;subd=coincentral&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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