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		<title>U.S. Troops Dying on Afghan Border With &#8230; IRAN?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Allied combat deaths in Afghanistan surpassed those in Iraq for a second straight month in June. Meanwhile, New Yorker reporter Sy Hersh writes that ]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Questions About the Rescue in Colombia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dramatic rescue of the FARC hostages raises a host of important questions, here are a few, with short answers following and lengthy answers below: 
Was the rescue the cover for an arrangement with the FARC?
Probably not.
What effect will this have on future hostage releases?
It will probably lead to more units dissolving and possibly releasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Gap in Tracking Terrorist Financing Through Money Service Businesses?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department&#8217;s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) appears to have responded to a published report of a potential gap in the pursuit of critical information needed for terrorist financing investigations.  On June 13, Moneylaundering.Com reported that FinCEN has never forwarded special information requests, authorized under Section 314(a) of the Patriot ACT, to money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=31</link>
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		<title>The Importance of the Colombian Rescue Mission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my colleagues Jonathan Winer and Aaron Mannes have written on the Counterterrorism Blog, the spectacular operation by the Colombian military to rescue 15 high-profile hostages was a tremendous blow to the FARC in Colombia.
In the interest of full disclosure, Ingrid Bentancourt is a friend of mine, and I have written about her in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Indonesian Police Raids in Sumatra Yield Suspects, Bombs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past three days, the Indonesian police counter-terrorist formation, Detachment 88, has conducted a series of raids in and around the city of Palembang in South Sumatra province. On 28 June, a Singaporean national named Alim (alias Omar, alias Taslim, alias Abu Hazam) was the first to be detained. According to the Indonesian media, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Details on Colombia Hostage Operation Right Out of Spy Thriller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First accounts on the rescue operation, now being provided by Colombian military officials, while still veiled on some key points, suggest that Colombia carried out a spectacularly successful sting operation in which Colombian commandos pretended to be FARC officials come to take the hostages to a new location for a possible diplomatic negotiated exchange.
According to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=28</link>
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		<title>FARC is FARC&#8217;d: Assessing the Hostage Rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first reports about the Colombian military&#8217;s rescue of the 15 hostages held by FARC (in Spanish) indicate an impressive intelligence operation.  The hostages were held in three separate locations.  Colombian intelligence had infiltrated one of the FARC fronts holding the hostages as well as the FARC Secretariat.  They told the front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Colombia Rescues Ingrid Betancourt and Three US Hostages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dramatic news that Colombia had successfully rescued Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans held hostage for years by FARC terrorists represents a further break-through by the Uribe government in what has been an extraordinary year of successes against FARC. 
We still don&#8217;t have the details, but what is by now clear is that Colombia&#8217;s decision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Two Worrisome Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two stories today that point to ongoing problems and the future contours of the conflicts in which we will be emerged in coming years.
The first is the extensive New York Times piece on who lack of resources, bureaucratic infighting and lack of unified vision (coupled with a high tolerance for Pakistan&#8217;s game-playing) has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Two Worrisome Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are two stories today that point to ongoing problems and the future contours of the conflicts in which we will be emerged in coming years.
The first is the extensive New York Times piece on who lack of resources, bureaucratic infighting and lack of unified vision (coupled with a high tolerance for Pakistan&#8217;s game-playing) has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://freedomalert.org/blog2/?p=23</link>
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