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The New York Times reports that helicopter-borne American Special Operations forces attacked al-Qaeda militants in a Pakistani village in the Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan, close to the border with Afghanistan early Wednesday.
“What you’re seeing is perhaps a stepping up of activity against militants in sanctuaries in the tribal areas that pose a direct [...]

A little over a year ago, a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) entitled The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland. concluded that the invasion and occupation of Iraq has fueled Sunni radicalism around the globe and has caused the terrorist threat to grow. While the Bush administration sent the bulk of our nation’s ground forces [...]

A few years ago, the youth group from my congregation participated with the youth group from the mosque on a service project. At the end of the night, the kids returned to HUCC for debriefing. The Muslim youth later complained they felt it was wrong for boys and girls to sit together in [...]

Geographers like me are used to our fellow Americans’ inexhaustible reservoir of ignorance about the world. After all, it’s a big planet that offers a vast array of little-known information.
Yet, surely we could be expected to know something. How hard can it be?

Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on [...]

The Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) today concluding that the United States has no plan to combat al Qaeda and other terrorist threats in Pakistan. The GAO found that “[t]errorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country’s Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in military and [...]

In last night’s Democratic presidential debate, the candidates were asked about a hypothetical act of nuclear terrorism by non-state actors and what they would do to prevent it. Nobody had a good answer. Such is politics.
However, I noticed the always-savvy Wired Danger Room blog did an even better than usual job of covering [...]