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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Terrorism</title>
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		<title>Rejecting Hamas</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooke Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of good news from earlier. As you may have seen, reports have been swirling about a plan by Obama to open direct talks with Hamas. Those reports are evidently groundless, as a statement from Brooke Anderson was &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/01/10/rejecting-hamas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Motive for Mumbai Attacks Emerges</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/27/motive-for-mumbai-attacks-emerges/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/27/motive-for-mumbai-attacks-emerges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deccan Mujahedeen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Deccan Mujahedeen gunman has spoken by telephone to a television station from within the Oberoi Trident Hotel (which has since been raided by Indian special forces units), and said the motivation of the attacks was to end persecution of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/27/motive-for-mumbai-attacks-emerges/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nebraska Boots Ayers</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/nebraska-boots-ayers/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/20/nebraska-boots-ayers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of old news I didn&#8217;t have a chance to mention, but it seems that grotesque little terrorist William Ayers won&#8217;t be speaking at my beloved UNL. Good for us.]]></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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/17/a-separate-cause-on-gitmo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al Qaeda]]></category>
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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>Christopher Hitchens &amp; Political Irresponsibility</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video of Laura Ingraham interrogating Christopher Hitchens over his rather weakly supported endorsement of Barack Obama for president. Hitch&#8217;s primary position in this chat is that Obama should be supported because he is &#8220;evolving&#8221; toward support of a more aggressive &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Priority of the Estate</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/priority-of-the-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Cochran reports that some media organizations he&#8217;s familiar with have reassigned terrorism specialists to investigate Sarah Palin. Andrew sees this as part of a long-term decline of media interest in the threat of transnational terrorism and US counterterrorism policy, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/priority-of-the-estate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ludicrous Expectations</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/ludicrous-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/ludicrous-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of Bob Woodward&#8217;s criticism in his upcoming fourth volume on the Bush presidency: &#8220;He had not rooted out terror wherever it existed. He had not achieved world peace.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Drug War Progress But Not</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/drug-war-progress-but-not/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/drug-war-progress-but-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Counterterrorism Blog For the first time in 25 years there are no clearly identifiable drug kingpins running the cocaine trade from Colombia. The FARC and AUC are both seriously degraded. Yet, production has not diminished, and, according to Colombian and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/04/drug-war-progress-but-not/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To the Heart of the Matter</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/to-the-heart-of-the-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/to-the-heart-of-the-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extremism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norm Geras, as he often does, cuts away the extraneous aspects of how and why terrorism exists, as well as how the media distorts out thinking about it, and our response.]]></description>
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		<title>A Paranoid on Paranoia-Last updated 1:06 CST</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/a-paranoid-on-paranoia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/a-paranoid-on-paranoia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 9/11 itself, the anthrax attacks were probably the most consequential event of the Bush presidency. One could make a persuasive case that they were actually more consequential. You could? The 9/11 attacks were obviously traumatic for the country, but &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/03/a-paranoid-on-paranoia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>(Relatively) Measuring Success</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/05/relatively-measuring-success/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/05/relatively-measuring-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the most recent of a series of posts on Registan.net where I explore some of the fundamentals of conflict within the tribal areas of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. At the end of this post is a link to the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/05/relatively-measuring-success/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“This is what I wish, to be martyred”</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/05/%e2%80%9cthis-is-what-i-wish-to-be-martyred%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Khalid Sheikh Mohammed&#8217;s statements to the U.S. military court today: The accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/05/%e2%80%9cthis-is-what-i-wish-to-be-martyred%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>More Like This Please</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/21/more-like-this-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised, and mildly irritated, to see that Condi Rice basically called Muqtada al-Sadr a coward while she was in Baghdad recently (via: Instapundit): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/21/more-like-this-please/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chavez Threatens Colombia Because He Finances Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/03/chavez-threatens-colombia-because-he-finances-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/03/chavez-threatens-colombia-because-he-finances-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McQ alerts us to this developing story in South America. Colombia, apparently, struck at a narco-terrorist camp inside Ecuador after tracking FARC spokesman Paul Reyes and other leaders there. Reyes and 16 other terrorists were killed. Chavez reacted by sending &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/03/chavez-threatens-colombia-because-he-finances-terrorism/">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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/breaking-drug-terrorism-markets/#comments</comments>
		<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>Anti-FARC March in D.C.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/anti-farc-march-in-dc/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/anti-farc-march-in-dc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Lilyea has the goods: So I decided to add my voice to the millions worldwide from here in DC. I was really surprised that an ad hoc organization put together such a large demonstration in such a short period &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/anti-farc-march-in-dc/">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>Mukasey on Waterboarding (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/30/mukasey-on-waterboarding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Michael Mukasey sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the interrogation technique known as waterboarding. Mukasey remarked that it is not an authorized interrogation technique, and that it &#8220;is not, and may not be, used in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/30/mukasey-on-waterboarding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorist plot foiled in Barcelona</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/28/terrorist-plot-foiled-in-barcelona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fausta has the details, and Captain Ed has more. A wave of attacks was planned, and as Captain Ed points out, none are involved in Iraq.]]></description>
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		<title>No Mas FARC</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/no-mas-farc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuelans not fond of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s new found affinity for narcoterrorism, are planning street marches in Caracas and Maracaibo to explicitly reject FARC and their murderous barbarism. This is an enormously heartening sign of genuinely worthwhile international solidarity, unlike the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/no-mas-farc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>Terrorists by Any Name</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/terrorists-by-any-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JammieWearingFool hilariously points out that Hugo Chavez&#8217;s recent appeal to the world to refer to the FARC as &#8220;insurgents,&#8221; rather than terrorists, is off to a smashing start. It only took Reuters four paragraphs into the story before they began &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/13/terrorists-by-any-name/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Aint So</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/say-it-aint-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via hotair President Bush on Friday used a “pocket veto” to reject a sweeping defense bill because he dislikes a provision that would expose the Iraqi government to expensive lawsuits seeking damages from the Saddam Hussein era… The sponsor of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/11/say-it-aint-so/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Green Party and National Security: An Interview with Alan Augustson</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/29/the-green-party-and-national-security-an-interview-with-alan-augustson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 05:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back I posted a facile little rebuke aimed at the national security implications of Green Party presidential candidate Alan Augustson&#8216;s political platform. Alan responded to this in such a way that I realized I had little idea &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/05/29/the-green-party-and-national-security-an-interview-with-alan-augustson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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