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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
2:00 pm EDT, Jul 24, 2004 |
We're not in the middle of a war on terror. We're not facing an axis of evil. Instead, we are in the midst of an ideological conflict. It seems like a small distinction -- emphasizing ideology instead of terror -- but it makes all the difference, because if you don't define your problem correctly, you can't contemplate a strategy for victory. We've had an investigation into our intelligence failures; we now need a commission to analyze our intellectual failures. Last week I met with a leading military officer stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq, whose observations dovetailed remarkably with the 9/11 commissioners. He said the experience of the last few years is misleading; only 10 percent of our efforts from now on will be military. The rest will be ideological. MemeStreams is a weapons system in the war of ideas. War of Ideology |
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CIA Sends Terror Experts to Tell Small Towns of Risk |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
2:23 am EDT, Jul 22, 2004 |
Al Qaeda's designs on the United States are continuous, worrisome and corroborated by informants who are believed to be highly credible. FBI Director Mueller noted that "Boston and New York will be hard targets" and suggested that the terror network might look elsewhere. CIA Sends Terror Experts to Tell Small Towns of Risk |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
3:42 pm EDT, Jul 18, 2004 |
The newly reorganized Iraqi security forces have conducted several high-profile raids, including one this week that captured 15 suspected members of Al Qaeda and its allies. Iraq and al Qaeda |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
3:39 pm EDT, Jul 18, 2004 |
In remarks published in the al-Hayat newspaper, Allawi was quoted as saying Iraqi forces have arrested al-Qaida operatives and is seeing increasing coordination between Osama bin Laden's terror network and Saddam loyalists. He said those arrested included the driver of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is accused of attacks and kidnappings in Iraq and elsewhere. Allawi also said millions of dollars are being channeled by Saddam loyalists in neighboring countries to help al-Qaida-linked militants such as al-Zarqawi carry out terror attacks. |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
5:48 pm EDT, Jul 5, 2004 |
"You can't talk sense to them," Bush said, referring to terrorists. "Nooooo!" the audience roared. Bush in West Virginia |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
12:28 pm EDT, Jul 4, 2004 |
Enter the name of a US citizen or foreign national. The Oracle of bin Laden |
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A Guide to the Memos on Torture |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
10:39 am EDT, Jun 27, 2004 |
The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have disclosed memorandums that show a pattern in which Bush administration lawyers set about devising arguments to avoid constraints against mistreatment and torture of detainees. Administration officials responded by releasing hundreds of pages of previously classified documents related to the development of a policy on detainees. NYT offers a brief description of each memo along with a pointer to the full text. A Guide to the Memos on Torture |
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Aides Say Memo Backed Coercion for Qaeda Cases |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
10:37 am EDT, Jun 27, 2004 |
The Bybee memo was prepared after an internal debate within the government about the methods used to extract information from Abu Zubaydah, one of Osama bin Laden's top aides, after his capture in April 2002. The memo, which is dated Aug. 1, 2002, was a seminal legal document guiding the government's thinking on interrogation. The memo concluded that a coercive procedure could not be considered torture unless it caused pain equivalent to that accompanying "serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death." To be regarded as torture, the memo said, mental pain must also be caused by "threats of imminent death; threats of infliction of the kind of pain that would amount to physical torture; infliction of such physical pain as a means of psychological torture; use of drugs or other procedures designed to deeply disrupt the senses, or fundamentally alter an individual's personality; or threatening to do any of these things to a third party." Aides Say Memo Backed Coercion for Qaeda Cases |
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DoD Provides Details on Interrogation Process |
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11:21 pm EDT, Jun 22, 2004 |
The Department of Defense today released documents related to the development of interrogation procedures at Guantanamo. These documents are made available to demonstrate that the actions of the U. S. Defense Department are bound by law and guided by American values. The release of these declassified documents will demonstrate the transparency in which we are conducting inquiries into allegations of detainee abuse. There are nine documents in all. DoD Provides Details on Interrogation Process |
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White House Releases Documents Detailing Interrogating Tactics |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
11:19 pm EDT, Jun 22, 2004 |
New details about interrogation techniques were found today in several hundred pages of documents released by the White House and the departments of Defense and Justice that portray a Bush administration struggling to set down specific rules governing interrogation methods in the early days of the war on terror up to the start of the war in Iraq in March 2003. At no time does the administration approve anything approaching what was done to inmates who have been seen in photographs being abused and sexually humiliated at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, according to the documents. Tom, looks like you may get what you asked for -- a public debate about torture in the context of the global war on terrorism. Call me contradicted. This is only a start, but it's a step in the open direction. White House Releases Documents Detailing Interrogating Tactics |
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