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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: Turkey's Loopy Liberal Set
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Sunday, July 6, 2008. Turkey's Loopy Liberal Set. The secularists in Turkey don't get it. They're trying to get rid of the conservative government ( this time. Apparently, with a coup! Because Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his parliamentary majority tried to overturn a law barring women from wearing the hijab on campus. Take a current example of how Separation of Church and State works in the U.S. If my girlfriend needs Plan B, ...About...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: Staight Out of Tehran
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Sunday, July 20, 2008. Staight Out of Tehran. Given the subtitle of this blog—the prize lyric from "Rock the Casbah," the Clash's prescient takedown of militant Islam and its revolution fake out—I must alert everyone to this. Posted by Martian Bracelets. This led me to the List of songs deemed inappropriate by clearchannel after 9-11. Good for a laugh. Or cry. July 21, 2008 at 7:23 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 8226;"Afghanistan S...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: The Best Offense...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Filed this scary report. Al Qaeda’s success in forging close ties to Pakistani militant groups has given it an increasingly secure haven in the mountainous tribal areas of Pakistan, the American government’s senior terrorism analyst said Tuesday. The news is not surprising—the NYT. There are four plays to this defensive strategy:. 1) Support the emerging democratically elected, parliamentary coalition in Islamabad.
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: Post-Misstep Policy: Pakistan
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Thursday, August 7, 2008. There's some big (and good) news. Out of Pakistan today: The leader of the Pakistan People's Party, Asif Ali Zardari, and the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, Nawaz Sharif, emerged from days of backroom meetings and held a press conference announcing their joint call to impeach intransigent Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Is the PPP Prime Minister. Zardari is the more powerful PPP chairman). Also: Zard...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: Al Qaeda in Yenemsvelt
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Thursday, July 10, 2008. Al Qaeda in Yenemsvelt. Continues its drumbeat for action against Pakistan: With a smidgen of breaking news (the latest word from the DOD) they published this. American military and intelligence officials say there has been an increase in recent months in the number of foreign fighters who have traveled to Pakistan’s tribal areas to join with militants there. I understand that the idea of an Al Qaeda haven is startl...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: All Battles are Confusing
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Tuesday, July 1, 2008. All Battles are Confusing. Courtesy of An American Pessoptomist. Comes this scary story. About war crimes that may have been committed by Somali and Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia. And in the American version of Somalia, these are the good guys? No wonder the radicals on the other side. Posted by Martian Bracelets. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Making Sense of the Middle East. Charles Lipson's Middle East News.
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: "You Have to Be with the Democratic Forces"
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Thursday, August 14, 2008. You Have to Be with the Democratic Forces". There are a couple of things in today's NYT. About the big news from Pakistan (Musharraf is expected to resign soon) that need to be highlighted. Bush actually met with Pakistan's prime minister a few weeks ago in Washington. Yousaf Raza Gillani, who leads the majority party in the coalition, the Pakistan People's Party. Despite the coalition, the liberal PPP are bit...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: Profile #2: Turkish Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Friday, June 6, 2008. Profile #2: Turkish Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey's most powerful court ruled this week that female students cannot wear the hijab (the Islamic headscarf) on campus. The. The secular opposition Republican People’s Party, called the verdict a triumph of justice and said it showed that secularism and democracy were “constitutional principles that can’t be separated from one another.”. On February 9,. Yesterday, ...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: Profile #3: Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Sunday, June 8, 2008. Profile #3: Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora. Thankfully, an emergency summit in late May in Doha, Qatar halted the violent clashes in Lebanon that had broken out earlier in the month between government opponents from Hezbollah and pro-government militias. The Doha accord, reached on May 21, set up the framework for a unity government and prevented a civil war. In fact, Siniora was the previous prime minister of ...
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda: The Correct Afghan Analogy: 2002 not '89.
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Josh vs. Al Qaeda. As soon as the sharif was outta their hair.". Sunday, June 22, 2008. The Correct Afghan Analogy: 2002 not '89. Al Qaeda wants to set up a pre-fab Afghan War in Pakistan, and the U.S. just might go in. As the NYT. NATO was drawn in and returned fire this afternoon. By "Afghan War," Al Qaeda means the Soviet/Afghan War of the 1980s. Effectively baling on Karzai— than with any equation on the ground that naturally favored Al Qaeda. 8212; is, in fact, a member of the left-leaning PPP.