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What the US Needs to Do to Avoid Another 9/11
Tawfik Hamid - www.tawfikhamid.com, July 29th, 2010The leaks of more than 90,000 records about the Afghanistan conflict by Wikileaks has raised the possibility that Pakistan, assumed to be an ally of the United States, and its ISI spy service, has met secretly with the Taliban to not only organize militant networks to fight against American soldiers, but also to even plot to assassinate Afghan leaders.
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House Republicans Giving Green Light for Israeli Strike on Iran
Gil Ronen - Arutz-7, July 29th, 2010Nearly one third of the Republican congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would support Israel's right to use “all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran”, including military force.
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Huge jump in IED attacks in Afghanistan
Unknown - Homelandsecuritynewswire.com, July 29th, 2010
Pictured left - The use of IEDs, packing hugely destructive power, increases in Afghanistan Source: wired.
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Palestinian summer camp for "young leaders" named after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), July 29th, 2010A summer camp in Bethlehem is the latest institution in the Palestinian Authority to be named after the leader of the worst terror attack in Israel's history.
According to the official PA daily newspaper, the new camp is named after Dalal Mughrabi, who led a 1978 bus hijacking in which 37 civilians, 12 of them children, were killed.
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Grad missile lands in Ashkelon - Several people treated for shock; damage caused to buildings, cars.
JPost.com Staff - The Jerusalem Post, July 30th, 2010A Grad missile launched from the Gaza Strip landed in a central, residential area in the southern city of Ashkelon Friday morning.
Photo (left) by: Tsafrir Abayov/AP
Magen David Adom crews treated two people for shock.
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