From the monthly archives: January 2010
Ann Althouse asks “What’s more exciting about tomorrow? The State of the Union Address or the unveiling, presumably, of the Apple Tablet?”
It ain’t even close, Apple Tablet is winning 96% to 4%.
By the way, the best site for Apple Tablet rumors is here.
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Tomorrow there will be a fantastic event sponsored by three of my favorite organizations on a topic of great interest to me:
The Federalist Society’s International Law and National Security Law Practice Group, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and The National Review Institute are sponsoring an event entitled: [...]
The always fantastic Sentinel, a publication of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center is now available on-line, here.
There is an interesting line up of articles on al Qaeda specifically, and the jihadist threat more broadly. Included are:
The Façade of Allegiance: Bin Ladin’s Dubious Pledge to Mullah Omar by Vahid Brown Assessing the [...]
Exactly one year has passed since President Obama declared he would close Guantanamo.
And today, The Washington Post reports that his Department of Justice Task Force will recommend “that nearly 50 of the 196 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be held indefinitely without trial under [...]
This video shows the “rehabilitation” program in Saudi Arabia which former GITMO detainees were sent to. One program graduate, Said Ali al-Shihiri is second in command of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and was a key planner of the christmas bombing plot. Note how the prison is a palace and the rehabilitation center is [...]
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Greg McNeal is a professor and national security specialist focusing on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with substantive expertise in national security law and policy, transnational crime, global policy studies, and international affairs.
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