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28 September 2006
Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:50:47 GMT Rushing Off a Cliffvia Kjell Olsen833 days agoCongress passed a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:09:14 GMT
What has happened that the Senate is willing to turn America from a bastion of freedom into a caldron of suspicion ruled by a Government of unchecked power?
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12 September 2006
Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:01:57 GMT More Americans Have Now Died In Iraq Than Died On 9/11via Kjell Olsen849 days agoThere isn’t much that I can say.
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05 September 2006
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:22:02 GMT Iraqis who Sweated out Hussein are Leaving under Bushvia Kjell Olsen857 days agoAt least 40,000 Iraqis have been killed in the past three years, with scores more murdered every day. Hospitals overflow with the wounded. Conditions are so bad, an estimated 1-million Iraqis have fled their homes for sanctuary in Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Iraqis, particularly middle-class families, who survived Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, are leaving en masse. Even Mr. Bush admits things are “terrible” in Baghdad.
Don’t you just love the smell of democracy in the morning?
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18 November 2005
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:50:23 GMT Tortured men look like 'Holocaust victims'via Kjell Olsen1148 days agoWitnesses said many of the 169 men and youths were emaciated and looked like “Holocaust survivors”. Some had suffered beatings so severe that their skin had peeled off, and three men had been kept locked in a cupboard where they could not move. All the others were packed, blindfolded, into three rooms nine feet long and 11 feet wide. Kim Sengupta
America – Holocausting terrorists.
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11 November 2005
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:25:15 GMT ... And why it should never be one - Los Angeles Timesvia Kjell Olsen1154 days agoWhat real CIA field officers know firsthand is that it is better to build a relationship of trust
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17 September 2005
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:39:00 GMT Hijacking Catastrophevia Kjell Olsen1210 days agoTeriffic look at how neocons have taken their agenda to the highest level of american government.
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11 September 2005
Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:35:00 GMT Taking Stock of the Forever Warvia Kjell Olsen1216 days agoThis, and the sheer number and breadth of terrorist attacks, suggest strongly that Al Qaeda has now become Al Qaedaism – that under the American and allied assault, what had been a relatively small, conspiratorial organization has mutated into a worldwide political movement, with thousands of followers eager to adopt its methods and advance its aims. Call it viral Al Qaeda, carried by strongly motivated next-generation followers who download from the Internet’s virtual training camp a perfectly adequate trade-craft in terror. 1
Four years after we watched the towers fall, Americans have not succeeded in “ridding the world of evil.” We have managed to show ourselves, our friends and most of all our enemies the limits of American power. 2
In a letter to bin Laden that was intercepted by American forces in January 2004, Zarqawi asked: “When the Americans disappear. . .what will become of our situation?” 9
Now, day by day, the illusion is slipping away, and with it what authority the Americans had in Iraq. What is coming to take its place looks increasingly like a failed state. 10
He [Bin Laden] had struck at the American will, and his strategy, which relied in effect on the persistent reluctance of American leaders to speak frankly to their people about the costs and burdens of war and to expend the political capital that such frank talk would require, had proved largely correct. 13
In this new world, where what is necessary to go on the attack is not armies or training or even technology but desire and political will, we have ensured, by the way we have fought this forever war, that it is precisely these qualities our enemies have in large and growing supply. 14
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16 August 2005
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:49:00 GMT The Future of Terrorism: What al-Qaida Really Wants - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - NewsKjell Olsen1242 days agoOr: we all are fucked.
This final stage is described as “definitive victory.” Hussein writes that in the terrorists’ eyes, because the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the “one-and-a-half billion Muslims,” the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn’t last longer than two years.
Supposedly the terrorists goal is to consolidate the muslim world into it’s own Islamic caliphate. Think the USSR, but this time with radical islam instead of communism, and five times the population (USSR 293mil 1991, vs 1.5bil speculated in this article). And then fight the west.
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07 July 2005
Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:57:00 GMT 7 July 2005 London bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediavia Kjell Olsen1282 days agoBest info I’ve found on the bombings. My heart goes out, and hopefully things clear up soon and a clearer idea of what happened emerges.
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