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By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 20) -- Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based paramilitary group, now has its own museum. Hamas, in Gaza, has a cultural center. It seems the latest phase of the war on terrorism may be the battle for popular culture. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that countries and groups on all sides of the conflict are opening museums with dueling ideological views. Here are a few of the museums around the world dedicated to exposing terrorism or, conversely, to defending acts labeled as terrorism by the international community: Lebanon: Informally known as Hezbollahland, its formal name is the ...
How Real Is Pakistan's New Tack on Taliban?
By Adnan R. Khan - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- Revelations this week that Pakistan has arrested up to half of the resident Afghan Taliban leadership, known as the Quetta Shura, has raised hopes that a reluctant neighbor is finally coming around to supporting the U.S.- led war in Afghanistan. The arrests over the last few weeks -- including the detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's second in command -- are being hailed as a new beginning for Pakistan, which has traditionally nurtured Islamic fundamentalists as an integral part of its foreign policy. Mohammad Sajjad, AP Pakistani security officials walk past ...
DOJ Finds No Misconduct by Bush Interrogation Lawyers
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Feb. 20) -- The Justice Department is closing the books on its probe of the Bush administration lawyers whose legal memorandums authorized the CIA to waterboard terrorism suspects, but the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains offended by the memos and will hold hearings An internal review said the department lawyers showed "poor judgment" but did not commit professional misconduct in giving CIA interrogators the go-ahead at the height of the U.S. war on terrorism to use harsh interrogation tactics. President Barack Obama campaigned on abolishing ...
Bulk of Anti-Terror Funding Pegged to 9/11 Suspect
By Russell Berman - AOL News(Feb. 1) -- At first glance, the $213 million that the Obama administration wants to add to the federal budget in anti-terrorism funding for high-risk cities next year seems like a substantial increase. It would boost the pot of urban homeland security money by 24 percent over the current level. But a closer look at the budget finds that almost all of the increase – $200 million – can be traced largely to one man: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. www.muslm.net / AP A lion's share of the $213 million President Obama is asking for in anti-terrorism funding for high-risk cities next year can ...
Republicans Go Bonkers Over Obama and Flight 253
By David Corn - Politics DailyAs 2009 comes to a close, it seems that some Republicans are looking to reach new heights of rhetorical excess. The bumbled-and-thwarted Christmas Day terrorist attack has caused many GOPers to become hysterical, as they crassly seek to exploit this near-tragedy to bash President Barack Obama. Ex-Veep Dick Cheney, no surprise, has led this dishonorable charge, issuing a statement: As I've watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low-key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner ...
Is Yemen the New Afghanistan?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 28) -- A plot to to blow up an airliner over Detroit. The shooting rampage at Fort Hood. The attack on the USS Cole. What could they possibly have in common? Call it the Yemen connection. The botched attempt by a Nigerian man to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet over Detroit on Christmas Day is the latest terrorist operation linked to extremists in the troubled country. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old accused in the plot, said he was trained and equipped with chemical explosives by al-Qaida in Yemen, home to his mother's family. The government confirmed Monday ...
Reporter's Notebook: 7 Scenes From the Afghan Surge on Capitol Hill
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 2) - There was a sense of déjà vu all over again at the first in a series of Capitol Hill hearings on the Obama administration's new strategy in Afghanistan. "This is the second surge I'm up here defending," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee. A holdover from the Bush administration, Gates compared the troop buildup in Afghanistan to the earlier surge in Iraq and said an already planned withdrawal will have "much in common with the way we began to draw down in Iraq." One day after President Barack Obama announced in a speech at the U.S. ...
Opinion: Obama's Speech -- Long on Platitudes, Short on Substance
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 1) - If you tuned in late to President Obama's speech this evening announcing his decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, you might be forgiven for initially thinking that George W Bush was still president. For a candidate who ran for the nation's highest office on the notion that he would change the mind-set of American foreign policy and de-emphasize the war on terror, the initial part of Obama's speech brought back the bogeyman of al-Qaida. In vivid detail he reminded Americans of the terrible events of Sept. 11 -- and the potential for new violence. Though ...
A Fragile Key to the Exit: Training Afghan Forces
By Carmen Gentile - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama's plan to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in three years without yielding it to the Taliban hinges on training Afghan army and police forces. So far, after spending more than $6.2 billion on training the police and substantially more on the nascent Afghan National Army, the U.S. and its allies are still a long way from building an indigenous force that can hold up against a determined Taliban adversary. Both the hope and the discouragement that have accompanied training efforts so far were on display one recent chilly morning in a village in eastern Afghanistan's ...
The Other Key Audience for Obama's Afghan Address
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Nov. 24) -- When President Barack Obama informs the nation next week of his long-awaited plan for Afghanistan, he probably will take into account an even wider audience: the allied countries Washington is counting on to bolster any growing U.S. deployment. "One of the things I'm going to be discussing is the obligations of our international partners in this process," Obama said during a brief appearance before reporters Tuesday. Obama is expected to deliver his speech on Dec. 1. It's no coincidence that two days later, NATO foreign ministers will convene in Brussels for a series of meetings ...
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