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Md. Guard major who taught in Balto. Co. is killed in Afghan ministry shooting
As violent protests continued in Afghanistan over the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book by NATO forces, the Pentagon confirmed Monday that a Maryland National Guard major was one of two U.S. military officers shot to death inside a ministry...Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Bombings, U.S. Military, International Organizations, Military Equipment
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'All-American Muslim' -- a lost opportunity at understanding
A few words on what American Muslims need. We were discussing this, an olive-skinned Muslim man and I, at a banquet last year, when he said a wistful, poignant thing that has stayed with me ever since. "We thought we were white," he said. Not "white" in...
Tags: Mary Tyler Moore, Family, Television Industry, Ellen DeGeneres, Customs and Tradition
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Two on terrorist watch list stopped in Laurel in 2011
Two individuals on a federal terrorist watch list were stopped in a vehicle by Laurel police at some point in 2011, then allowed to leave based on directives from officials at the federal Department of Homeland Security, according to Laurel police and...Tags: FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Civil Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Personal Data Collection
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Al-Qaida after bin Laden
One year after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs at his safe house in Pakistan, a substantially weakened al-Qaida and its affiliates continue to pose a threat to the West. The Pakistan-based group's leadership has been decimated by drone...
Tags: George W. Bush, Iraq, Arabian Peninsula, Elections, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)
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Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work
Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....
Tags: Abusive Behavior, World War I (1914-1918), Pakistan, Culture, World War II (1939-1945)
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Mr. Abbas' mission
Signs of movement toward renewed cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have Israeli officials on edge. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organization committed to its destruction and has shunned negotiations. In the wake of...Tags: Egypt, Elections, Tunisia, West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas
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Hamas will never accede to peace with Israel
The Sun editorial "Mr. Abbas' mission" (Feb. 13) is a triumph of wishful thinking over analysis. Its self-contradictions and omissions include: •Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas "would have to exercise the kind of statesmanship that has...Tags: Fatah, Egypt, Tehran (Iran), Palestinian Unity Pact (2011), West Bank
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What's so moderate about Muslim Brotherhood?
Your recent editorial regarding Egypt ("The revolution betrayed," Dec. 22) refers to "the moderately Islamist Muslim Brotherhood," biggest winner so far in Egypt's parliamentary voting, and to the country's "weak secular and liberal parties." The secular...Tags: Egypt, Washington, DC
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Former Islamic jihadist teaches Middle Eastern politics at Washington College
Shiraz Maher went to the mosque in search of answers.
Why, he wanted to know, had 15 young men from Saudi Arabia, the country where he spent most of his childhood, just crashed jetliners into prominent U.S. buildings?
The men who gave him clarity wore...Tags: Bombings, University of Maryland, College Park, England, Students, Pakistan
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Arundel parent who helped bridge cultures wins involvement award
An Anne Arundel County parent whose gentle spirit is said to have built bridges between cultures at her sons' elementary school was named the Maryland Parent Involvement Matters Award winner Friday night. Ambareen Jafri, a 35-year-old Crofton mother of...
Tags: Teachers, Crofton, Separation of Church and State, Elementary Schools, Schools
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The case against divesting from Israel
The "divestment from companies working In Israel" bandwagon is rolling again in several Protestant denominations, among them my own, the Presbyterian Church (USA). In one way, that's a good thing. It does ask us to pay attention to Israel and the West...
Tags: Israel, Companies and Corporations, Judaism, West Bank, Palestine
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The war on teror is over? Don't believe it
"The war on terror is over," or so claims an unnamed senior State Department official, as reported by National Journal's Michael Hirsh in his recent article "The Post al-Qaida Era." Really? Well, if the war is over, I must have missed the peace treaty...
Tags: Civil Rights, Elections, Defense, Human Rights, Religious Conflicts
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