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...battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims of Monday's missile strike, say the villagers of Doble, were not the militants they fear, but four of their own. On Tuesday, the BBC reported that hundreds of women and children marched through Doble, chanting anti-American slogans...
...recent report from the Government Accountability Office stated bluntly: “The United States’ foreign policy is the major root cause behind anti-American sentiments among Muslim populations.” Indeed, the link between America’s global interventionism and retaliatory acts of terrorism against the United States is nearly undeniable. As such, the United States must immediately cease foreign intervention operations...
...study also observed a surge in anti-American plots in the wake of the invasion. There were six jihadist attacks on the home soil of America’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies during this period, including the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 London subway attacks. Conversely, no attacks occurred during the 18 months following 9/11...
...Cambridge election official ordered the boxes to be removed. The problem? They were interpreted to violate rules against having political messages in a polling place. The reaction has been vociferous. Fox News branded Cambridge’s decision as “unpatriotic” and “anti-American.” The decision, however, was made to protect the integrity of the election, and it was the right one. The problem with the boxes has nothing to do with support or lack thereof for the troops, as it has been made out to be. The Boy Scouts...
...central government ignored the problems festering in Swat, concerned that a crackdown on demands for Shari'a would alienate the country's Islam-based political parties. By the time the military tried to intervene, a homegrown insurgency was in full swing. Fazlullah equated resistance to the government with an anti-American jihad that had already gained some support among Swat's Pashtuns, who belong to same ethnic group as Afghanistan's Taliban. The high incidence of civilian casualties from early bombing raids targeting extremist strongholds further alienated the populace. "The people want the militancy to stop," says Adnan Aurangzeb...