US ships begin long, slow trip to build Gaza dock in unique operation
The ships that are on the way now include the USAV James A. Loux, the USAV Montorrey, USAV Matamoros and USAV Wilson Wharf.
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Meet the Shadowy Figure Recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan
... Several reports in the last few days suggest that the Islamic State is now recruiting in southern Afghanistan, the spiritual heart of the Taliban and the site of fierce combat between...
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Obama’s Performance At West Point
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to bring us together and, on foreign policy, he may be making belate...
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LIFG and Al Qaeda: A Response to Zelin
On Friday, I had a post at G&L questioning the field’s conve...
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A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...
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Taliban Openly Rejects Goals of Peace Talks
The Obama administration is continuing to pursue peace talks with the Taliban, even as the Taliban openly rejects the goals of those talks. "With respect to talking to...
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Qaddafi vs. Reality
Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi just can’t accept the fact that anyone other than al Qaeda wants him gone. CNN reports: Meanwhile, in another lengthy, rambling s...
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A Few Missing Details
The New York Times reports that a federal appeals court has shot down a lawsuit against Jeppesen Data...
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Gitmo Transfers are Not Risk Free
Two noteworthy stories dealing with Gitmo detainee transfers came out of Europe this week. The first comes from Spain, where the daily newspaper El Mundo reports that Spanish intelligenc...
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Spinning the Gitmo Task Force’s Report
An email news alert sent out by the Washington Post on Friday evening reads: "Few Guantanamo detainees had significant roles, official review concludes." This makes it sound as if most o...
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On Combatant Detainee al-Marri, the Fourth Circuit Splits the Baby
About a year ago, I wrote here on NRO about a divided (2-1) panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that Ali Saleh Kalah al-Marri, an alleged terrorist operative from Qatar...
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Mired in Mogadishu
Two weeks ago a "national reconciliation congress" that Somalia's ineffectual "Transitional Federal Government" (TFG), under pressure from international donors who are its only means of supp...
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Al Qaeda’s Franchise in Africa
More than a year ago, I inaugurated this column with an essay whose title – "The War on Terrorism's Forgotten Front" – laid out what has been one of the recurring themes of this...
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See Cynthia and Mohamad Play Tag Team
Last August, after the Lebanese/Hezbollah war on Israel ended, we observed the irony that one country sending troops to the new, purportedly more effective, United Nations Interim Force in Lebano...
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Guantanamo is Not the Problem
To fly into the damp Caribbean heat of this U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is to enter a place of multifaceted myth, a zone that continues to inflame the imagination of the world. And y...
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The New Detainee Law Does Not Deny Habeas Corpus
There are innumerable positives in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the new law on the treatment of enemy combatants that President Bush will soon sign. Among the best is Congress's ref...
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The New Juristocracy
From the Founding right up until the still-quaking bombshell of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, issued at the end of the Supreme Court's term in late June, the primary imperative of national government...
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Lasering in on Leaks
Anger over the leaking of national-defense information by the media may have hit critical mass with the exposure, by the New York Times and other newspapers, of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Pro...
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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
The Senate reverses itself and opens the courts to al Qaeda.
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The Steps We Can Take to Prevent Another Abu Ghraib
Authored Ruth Wedgwood The worthy ambitions of the war in Iraq -- and I still believe there were many -- cannot mask the moral pain of the Abu Ghraib scandal. The cruel and humiliating m...