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Noah Shachtman

Erin Simpson is a civilian academic working for the U.S. Marine Corps. She blogs on all things counterinsurgency at Abu Muqawama.
I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around the Syria raid earlier this week. But two articles are sticking in my craw.

http://www.upi.com…
Oct. 31, 2008 at 1:52 AM
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Oct. 31 (UPI) — The Libyan intelligence agent serving a life sentence in Scotland for the bombing of a Pan Am (OTCPK:PNAA) plane has applied for bail pending appeal.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi could be released next week, The Telegraph reported. He has been diagnosed with cancer of [...]

http://www.independent.co.uk…
No evidence that men living in Bosnia plotted attack on Sarajevo embassy
Friday, 31 October 2008
In the dying days of the Bush administration, yet another presidential claim in the “war on terror” has been proved false by the withdrawal of the main charge against six Algerians held without trial for nearly seven years at Guantanamo prison [...]

http://susiemadrak.com…
Oct 31st, 2008 at 1:45 pm by
Juan Cole defends Rashid Khalidi against McCain allegations:
I know it may seem a novel idea to people like McCain and Palin, but it would be worthwhile actually reading Khalidi’s book on the Palestinian struggle for statehood. (I urge bloggers interested in this issue to link to his [...]

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com…
From Color of Change:

Be Prepared, and Conquer the Lines. We can’t let long lines stop anyone from voting. There are several ways you can reduce lines and make sure they don’t prevent you or anyone else from voting:

Vote early if you can. You can find early voting times and locations at govote.org.
Double-check your polling location [...]

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You Need to Know
10.31.08 — 1:01PM
Josh Marshall
It’s so important I’m reprinting Jo-Ann Mort’s post on McCain vile campaign against Rashid Khalidi in full …
It has come to this–the red baiting and the nastiness of the McCain/Palin campaign, in desperation to get Jewish support, is now baiting and bad-mouthing a notable Palestinian-American historian, Rashid Khalidi, [...]

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Clarification: Missile silo fire story
DENVER (AP) — In a story Oct. 30, The Associated Press reported the Air Force replaced the battery chargers at all U.S. missile launch sites after a May 23 fire at a Wyoming launch site, according to an Air Force spokeswoman. Maj. Laurie Arellano now says all the battery chargers are [...]

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Agence France-Presse
Published: Friday October 31, 2008
QUITO (AFP) – The US Central Intelligence Agency had “full knowledge” of the deadly Colombian raid March 1 on a FARC rebel camp inside Ecuador that led to a rupture in ties between Bogota and Quito, Ecuador’s Defense Minister Javier Ponce said.
The CIA “had full knowledge of what was [...]

*The more I read this, the less it sounds like some random act and the more it sounds like an operation of some sort. Scary. ~E*
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Brad Jacobson
Published: Friday October 31, 2008
Interviews with numerous legal experts suggest that Colorado US Attorney Troy Eid misled reporters and diverged from state law when declining to prosecute any [...]

WSWS - Alex Lantier
In a remarkable speech on nuclear policy delivered October 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), US Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a dire portrait of international affairs and argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes.