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Boston Marathon Explosions: Death On The Airwaves As Networks Scramble | The Daily Beast

April 15, 2013

“It could be al Qaeda…or a domestic lone wolf or domestic group.” CNN contributor Peter Bergen said the possibilities included al Qaeda terrorists and “right-wing extremists,” as in the Oklahoma City bombing, which some in the media initially ...

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In Swat Valley, U.S. Drone Strikes Radicalizing A New Generation | CNN

April 14, 2013

The New America Foundation estimates that in Pakistan, drones have killed between 1,953 and 3,279 people since 2004 -- and that between 18% and 23% of them were not militants. The nonmilitant casualty rate was down to about 10% in 2012, the group ...

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With Al Qaeda Shattered, U.S. Counter-Terrorism's Future Unclear | Los Angeles Times

April 14, 2013

"It's very hard to work this problem from a coldly analytic perspective because that's not how the people who pay our bills, Congress and the public, think about it," said Philip Mudd, a former top CIA and FBI official who is author of a new book ...

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Rights Groups Question Legality Of Targeted Killing | New York Times

April 12, 2013

By the count of the New America Foundation, a research group that tries to track targeted killing, the United States has carried out 422 strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, 373 of them since Mr. Obama took office in 2009, in addition to a handful in Somalia.

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Working Towards National Sustainability Using a Regional Approach | Greenbiz.com

April 11, 2013

So now I'm a senior fellow at New America Foundation and am working with a guy named Patrick Doherty at the New America Foundation under a program called the Smart Strategy Initiative. We looked at the economic theories of the likes of Michael Porter, ...

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HBO to Debut Documentary Manhunt, The Inside Story Of The Hunt ... | Broadway World

April 11, 2013

Among the film's most gripping scenes is Peter Bergen's account of filming his TV interview with bin Laden, the first-ever granted to western television, in which he stated his intention to attack the United States. Produced by Bergen with ...

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Roundup: Why We're Still Debating Guns | CNN International

April 11, 2013

Peter Bergen is a CNN national security analyst and author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden, from 9/11 to Abbottabad" and "The Longest War: America's Enduring Conflict with al-Qaeda." Dorothy Paugh: A mother's journey to bearing grief ...

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Despite U.S. Concerns, Islamists Join Syria Fight | Associated Press

April 10, 2013

Frankly, they didn't see the jihadi movement,” said Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism expert at the Washington-based New America Foundation, a public policy institute based in Washington, who conducted extensive research on the jihadist pipelines of ...

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'Dead' Al-Qaeda Leader Saeed Al-Shehri Delivers Audio Message Directed At ... | Raw Story

April 10, 2013

US drones strikes in Yemen nearly tripled in 2012 compared to 2011, according to the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. In October 2000, Al-Qaeda militants attacked US Navy destroyer the USS Cole in Yemen's port of Aden, killing 17 ...

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Anonymous Murder From A Safe Distance | Chicago Tribune

April 9, 2013

Anatol Lieven has a splendid and thoroughly knowledgeable article in the April 4 issue of the New York Review of Books, on the politics of disengaging from the war in Afghanistan. He concludes that it would be dishonorable and unreasonable for the ...

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