BoingBoing has a link to an research study just released by the RAND corp. looking at how terrorist groups have been defeated in the past (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/29/to-destroy-al-qaeda.html).
According to the study only 7% of terrorist group that have been defeated since 1968 were stopped through military efforts. Effective policing and politics accounted for about 40% each in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘War On Terror’
Study finds wars are only 7% effective in stopping terrorism
Posted in Middle East, politics, tagged Afghanistan, Energy Policy, Iraq, Middle East, politics, terrorism, US policy, war, War On Terror on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CIA torture and other fun stuff
Posted in Middle East, politics, tagged cia, democracy now, extraordinary rendition, george bush, interview, MOHAMED FARAG AHMAD BASHMILAH, police state, scary, torture, War On Terror on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you are are paying attention, you have no doubt heard about the US’s “extrodinary rendition” program where the CIA kidnaps sometime totally innocent people, often (as it turns out later) based on flawed intelligence, and then exports them to hidden prisons where they are tortured. Most of these people end up in Guantanimo where [...]
Taliban in drag…
Posted in Middle East, Weird, politics, tagged Afghanistan, Humor, Hypocrisy, Middle East, Taliban, War On Terror, Weird on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In 2002, a journalist was walking through Kandahar and came across a photos shop that was selling a collection of photos of the Taliban. The whole thing is pretty far out – 50’s era looking washed out color photos of effeminate men holding hands and showing off their guns. When not posing for glamor shots, [...]
