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Competence - that was Prime Minister Brown's unique selling point. He reacted calmly to the June terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and to the August outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, followed a month later by the bluetongue virus afflicting livestock. He cheered many in his own party by signaling a new distance from the Bush Administration, while reaffirming his Atlanticist credentials. By the time he delivered a workmanlike speech to Labour's annual congress in September, doubts about his abilities had been assuaged...
...message the Americans are sending to the region is that what succeeds is terror, bombings and a total disregard for democracy," a senior member of the anti-Syrian March 14 coalition in Lebanon tells TIME. "No one is going to remove the feeling from March 14 that we have been dumped by the Americans...
...believe to be senior al-Qaeda leadership." Whitman neither specified a location nor confirmed reports of other U.S. attacks. Asked about another air strike on Jan. 23--confirmed to TIME by a Pentagon officer--Whitman said, "We're going to go after al-Qaeda and the global war on terror, wherever it takes us." He continued: "I don't have anything for you on Somalia...
...people the US helped to reinstall in its invasion. Gannon ends the book with a rather bleak epilogue, calling on the West to forgo its hypocritical rhetoric and contradictory policies toward Muslim countries and their non-Muslim neighbors, which, she argues, only create the appearance that the War on Terror is, in fact, a War on Islam.Perhaps when the West learns to look at itself as critically as Gannon does and provides the necessary support to rebuild a country wracked by years of turmoil, the Afghani people will finally have something to smile about.—Staff writer Jamison...
...book, just in case I was selected for secondary screening—a reminder that, six years after Sept. 11, 2001, we still suffer from a heightened sense of vulnerability. One year after its initial publication, Radcliffe Instiute executive dean Lousie Richarson’s perspective on terrorism and nuanced advocacy of counter-terrorism efforts remains relevant.Richardson crafts a thorough history of terrorism that provides an even-handed portrait of modern terror’s roots, and memories of a childhood in Ireland amidst family stories of British oppression imbue her conclusions with a unique authority. Despite its strong foundation...