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		<title>Why Drone Warfare Threatens Us All &#8212; Blowback of the Predators</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by CONN HALLINAN Conn Hallinan can be read  at dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com  and middleempireseries.wordpress.com &#160; CounterPunch     October 05, 2011 &#160; Lost in debate over whether the Obama administration had the right to carry out the extra-legal execution of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemini cleric and al-Qaeda member, is who pulled the trigger? It is not a minor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prof. Robert D. Crews : Taliban remains strong ten years on</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Australia may seize David Hicks&#8217;s Guantanamo book cash</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/australia-may-seize-david-hickss-guantanamo-book-cash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC  21 July 2011 Australia has launched a legal bid to seize the profits from a book written by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Legal officials say any money made by David Hicks from his memoirs should be regarded as the proceeds of crime. Australian Hicks pleaded guilty to helping the Taliban at a US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared                              by Gareth Porter Published on Monday, July 4, 2011 by Inter Press Service WASHINGTON &#8211; Data on attacks by armed opposition forces and U.S. combat casualties since the U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan was completed last summer provide clear evidence that the surge and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>90% of Petraeus’s Captured ‘Taliban’ Were Civilians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[90% of Petraeus’s Captured ‘Taliban’ Were Civilians                                                                                  by Gareth Porter Antiwar Forum    June 13, 2011 During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden    (Oct 2001)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 12:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden    (Oct 2001)  By Andrew Buncomb Independent   Monday, 15 October 2001 After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only to be rejected by President Bush.  After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: U.S. considering strategic outreach to Hezbollah</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report: U.S. considering strategic outreach to Hezbollah Washington Post says Obama administration weighing dialogue with Lebanese militant group&#8217;s political wing, in an effort similar to that attempted by U.K. in its dealings with Sinn Fein in the 1990s. Haaretz     Sun, March 20, 2011 The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is considering reaching out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence of 2002 Taliban Offer Damages Myth of al-Qaeda Ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evidence of 2002 Taliban Offer Damages Myth of al-Qaeda Ties by Gareth Porter  Antiwar Forum     (Inter Press Service)   February 08, 2011  The central justification of the U.S.-NATO war against the Afghan Taliban – that the Taliban would allow al-Qaeda to return to Afghanistan – has been challenged by new historical evidence of offers by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nato escorts Taliban chief to secret talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afghan and American official have been holding secret talks with the second ranking figure in the Taliban in the firmest indication yet that substantive peace talks have begun. By Praveen Swami, Diplomatic Editor, and Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor Telegraph   - 20 Oct 2010 The Daily Telegraph has learned that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Qaida and Taliban threat is exaggerated, says security thinktank</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strategy institute challenges idea that troops are needed in Afghanistan to stop export of terrorism to west Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk &#8211; 7 September 2010 The threat posed by al-Qaida and the Taliban is exaggerated and the western-led counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan risks becoming a &#8220;long, drawn-out disaster&#8221;, one of the world&#8217;s leading security thinktanks warned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lacking Money and Leadership, Push for Taliban Defectors Stalls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ROD NORDLAND The New York Times         Published: September 6, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — A $250 million program to lure low-level Taliban fighters away from the insurgency has stalled, with Afghans bickering over who should run it, and international donors slow to put up the money they had promised. Six months after Afghanistan’s foreign backers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: &#8216;Medal of Honor&#8217; game sparks anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aljazeera Sunday, August 22, 2010 A new US video game in which the player can take on the role of a Taliban fighter and kill American and British soldiers has caused outrage in the UK. The country&#8217;s defence minister says it is &#8220;tasteless&#8221; and &#8220;shocking&#8221; and has called for the product to be banned. But the [...]]]></description>
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