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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; al Qaeda</title>
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		<title>Frank Miller&#8217;s Geostrategic Theory</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Lovece sat down with Frank Miller for Newsday to discuss his upcoming film The Spirit. Toward the end of it Lovece asked Miller about remarks he&#8217;d made in 2007 in support of the Iraq War, and offered him an &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/frank-millers-geostrategic-theory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Separate Cause on Gitmo</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In commenting on Barack Obama&#8217;s renewed pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Con Coughlin observes that most of the assembled army of Al Qaeda jihadists currently confined there would likely be released for lack of evidence, if the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Armies of the Obsolete</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling &#124; website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorist Smack</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/terrorist-smack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Qaeda&#8217;s Ayman Al-Zawahri disrespecting Hezbollah on the Lebanon War: &#8220;What victory? Retreating 30 miles backwards?&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>A Retreating Periphery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Mani Babbar) After 9/11 widened Al Qaeda&#8217;s ambitious war against most of the world, Osama bin Laden described his own axis-o-evil as being composed of &#8220;Crusaders, Zionists and Hindus.&#8221; But at some point, without anyone much noticing, that seems &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/01/a-shrunken-periphery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Life Imitates the Onion</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/22/life-imitates-the-onion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/11 Conspiracy Theories &#8216;Ridiculous&#8217; al Qaeda says &#8211; The Onion April 2nd Al-Qaeda accuses Iran of 9/11 lie &#8211; BBC April 22nd]]></description>
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		<title>AQI&#8217;s Last Stand?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/25/aqis-last-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Qaeda&#8217;s efforts in Iraq have been less than successful over the past year, due in large part to the Anbar Awakening and the related Councils of Concerned Citizens/Sons of Iraq movements, and the support offered those movements by Petraeus&#8217; &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/25/aqis-last-stand/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Terrorism Markets</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/breaking-drug-terrorism-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Farah notes that with the Al Qaeda leadership now dead or in flight from Iraq, we might be on the verge of a replication the experience of the Andean drug wars of the 1980s. In that situation, the death &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/breaking-drug-terrorism-markets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Al Qaeda&#8217;s Crisis in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/inside-al-qaedas-crisis-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) member in Arab Jabour, Iraq (photo: DoD) In extraordinary documents confiscated in November by the United States, we get an enemy&#8217;s eye view of the Awakening in Iraq, and further confirmation about how debilitating the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/10/inside-al-qaedas-crisis-in-iraq/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Witness in Mauritania</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/03/a-witness-in-mauritania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel Matzav has a video clip of a report on the Al Qaeda attack on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. You have to lament for the investigation when your eye witness refers to the scene of the attack as &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/03/a-witness-in-mauritania/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Decisive Battle?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/28/a-decisive-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that may be overstating it, but the Iraqi army is planning a major offensive against the last area where al Qaeda has a significant presence, Mosul and its environs.]]></description>
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		<title>Al Qaeda Casualties</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/al-qaeda-casualties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting figure from 2007 operations in Iraq: &#8220;Military operations against al Qaeda in Iraq resulted in the capture of 8,800 militants, while 2,400 were killed.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Al Qaeda in Thailand?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/al-qaeda-in-thailand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Thai government may be divided over whether AQ is funding Islamic militants in the south.]]></description>
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		<title>A Waziristan Awakening?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/a-waziristan-awakening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunni tribal leaders in Pakistan are organizing militias and some are ready to revolt against Al Qaeda. David Montero at the CSM takes a look at the risks and rewards of applying our successful counterterrorism strategy from Anbar, in Pakistan&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/14/a-waziristan-awakening/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Top Al Qaeda Operative Nabbed In Iraq, and Other Good News</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/28/top-al-qaeda-operative-nabbed-in-iraq-and-other-good-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Roggio has the scoop at Long War Journal: The Iraqi Army claimed to have captured the minister of defense of the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s political front organization. Ahmed Turki Abbas was captured after being wounded in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/28/top-al-qaeda-operative-nabbed-in-iraq-and-other-good-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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