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Topic: Al Qaeda

  
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Media: Message of Fear

After nearly three years, Osama bin Laden has resurfaced in American mainstream media. A video emerged on Tuesday featuring the terror leader's still image and his voice in which he praises the 19 "champions" (suicide hijackers) who ...READ»

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Al Qaeda Endorses McCain

In an endorsement that will not be welcomed by Mr McCain's flagging campaign, the group said that if al-Qaeda wants to exhaust the USmilitarily and economically, the "impetuous" Republican presidential candidate is the ...READ»

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The information the CIA & US Department of State ignored that could have prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks on NYC.

We both drove to Washington DC together to meet with Republican Senator, Tim Nicholson. Darko spent the night at his house and I in a hotel room on the Beltway. We had brought with us tons of secret information on Al Qaeda operatives with us for this visit but Darko left it all with me in my room and Senator Nicholson did not view it. Senator Nicholson took us out to breakfast early that morning and told us that "In DC, we are alla bunch of paid whores for campaign contributions." The Republika Srpska Information Agency was very generous to help America fight terrorism on many occasions. The boxes I stayed with that night had papers and photos of tons of Al Qaeda operatives.READ»

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Five Laws of Conflict – Burning Korans Breaks them All

This Saturday, Florida-based pastor Terry Jones had planned to lead his congregation in a Koran burning, celebrating what they call "International Burn a Koran Day." Although everyone from the Pope to Hillary Clinton has urged him to halt his plans, it seems that only a sign from God can keep him from following through. And I can't decide if Terry is short-sighted or brilliant.READ»

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Gospels of Failure

The reports on three high-profile disasters offer rich lessons in why organizations fail -- and how not to.READ»

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WikiLeaks Publishes 92,000 Military Documents, Points to Pakistan as Ally of Afghan Insurgents

WikiLeaks published over 90,000 mostly-classified military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. Pakistan's ties to the Taliban are revealed in detail, as are civilian deaths, friendly fire deaths, and scenes from a more ugly and complex war than is being reported.READ»

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The Twitter Threat: Tweeting Terrorists?

U.S. Army Intelligence is concerned that terrorists might use the micro-blogging platform Twitter to coordinate attacks, according to a draft report compiled by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion. Oh no -- batten the hatches!READ»

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What It Takes to Win the 40-Year War

According to one military expert on global terror, we're at the outset of a war that could last 40 years. Here are four bold strategies to help you adjust to this new reality -- and make sure that we win the war.READ»

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Strategy

"Those who out of cowardice use their wealth to pay Danegeld to the preachers of hate and destruction must be taught that this aggression will boomerang. A nuclear war stirred up against the 'infidels' might end up displacing Mecca ...READ»

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What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

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Reading List: The Starfish and the Spider

Decentralized networks are dismantling old industries and creating new ones, write the authors of The Starfish and the Spider.READ»

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Clear and Present Danger

Bankruptcy, unemployment, terrorism, war, disease . . . Welcome to dangerous times. Here are four strategies for living well in a state of high alert.READ»

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Implications of Mumbai terror attack ...

Some thing is needed to be done soon, else it might get too late!READ»

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" The Imagination Was There"

Jamie Gorelick, a 9/11 Commission member and partner in the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, has been sharing the lessons of 9/11 with clients and business groups since the book's release. A former vice chair at Fannie Mae and the deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, Gorelick spoke to Fast Company about imagination, leadership, and the persistence of outdated mind-sets.READ»

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Books That Matter

Ray Ozzie, Groove NetworksREAD»

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Battle Plan

Former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters outlines nine strategies for understanding, fighting, and defeating the new enemy. Rule #1: Culture is king.READ»

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Culture

Anne Having read each new newspaper story about the impending war with Iraq, I'm familiar with (and not entirely unsympathetic to) the Bush administration's rationale: We need to prevent Saddam from deploying biological and nuclear ...READ»

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Featured in the April Issue of Fast Company Magazine

The New Face of Al Jazeera, Page 42, by Linda Tischler With its often strident anti-American rhetoric and penchant for showing al Qaeda-produced hostage tapes, the Arabic news channel al Jazeera is seen by many Americans as little ...READ»

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In Today's Papers

Something for the clip file: Vivendi Agrees to Buy BMG For $2.1 Billion, Besting Rivals "Vivendi SA agreed to buy Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music Publishing business for about €1.63 billion ($2.1 billion), in a deal that makes it the ...READ»

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Continental Courage

Where do you find courage in this country? Not in the southern or western U.S., which overwhelming succumbed to the Bush campaign's fear mongering and Dick Cheney's demented suggestion that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the ...READ»

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Mapping Insights

Valdis Krebs is CEO of Orgnet. John Quarterman serves as CEO of Internet Perils. What follows is a partial transcript of their session at Supernova: Valdis Krebs: We're going to talk about mapping today. We're going to start with ...READ»

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Pop!Stars 2006

Six headliners from this year's conference.READ»

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Security: Power To The People

The myth of American omnipotence fell in the Iraqi desert, laid low by an agile new enemy. We have a chance now to rethink the systems that protected us in the past. It's one we cannot miss.READ»

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Yemen Architectural Treasures We Shouldn't Bomb Into Oblivion

We may have reopened our embassy there, but the government cautions that the country is still harboring terrorists and may be a threat to the U.S. However, there are some 2,500-year-old architectural reasons why we need to tread lightly.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Should We Stay in Afghanistan?

Everything you should know about the debate, in a single flow chart.READ»