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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Terrorism</title>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Does It Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/23/afghanistan-does-it-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/23/afghanistan-does-it-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan is a step toward addressing a large gap between US effort in Afghanistan &#8212; we are now spending a trillion dollars a decade in immediate costs alone &#8212; and the actual importance of Afghanistan.  As Richard Haass put it on &#8220;Charlie Rose&#8221; yesterday, there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is US Stability at Risk?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/19/is-us-stability-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/19/is-us-stability-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The AP reported last week that some &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; leaders and Oklahoma legislators are discussing forming a militia to defend against encroachment by the federal government.
There are other indicators that extremism is finding new purchase.
In February, a man used his light plane to launch a terrorist suicide attack on a government office in Austin, Texas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Af-Pak and Yem-Som</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/06/beyond-af-pak-and-yem-som/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/06/beyond-af-pak-and-yem-som/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yemen has now joined the list of prominent theaters in the battle against Islamist extremism.  This is no surprise to anyone who had noted its place in governance rankings.
Where next?  Here&#8217;s the basic list: the 20 least-stable countries in the world, with those in play in that battle in red, and others with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Armageddon in Islamabad&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/27/armageddon-in-islamabad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/27/armageddon-in-islamabad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sunni extremist takeover of Pakistan would be an immense threat to the US and hard to counter, Bruce Reidel writes in The National Interest.
Such a takeover
would create the greatest threat the United States has yet to face in its war on terror. Pakistan as an Islamic-extremist safe haven would bolster al-Qaeda’s capabilities tenfold. The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Eyeing Pakistan&#8217;s Nukes</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/02/eyeing-pakistans-nukes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/02/eyeing-pakistans-nukes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Qaeda has been unusually clear about its interest in nuclear weapons, and in particular those held by Pakistan, recently.
On June 21st, al Qaeda&#8217;s leader in Afghanistan said this about Pakistan&#8217;s arsenal: &#8220;God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama a &#8220;defeat&#8221; for Al Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/23/obama-a-defeat-for-al-qaeda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/11/23/obama-a-defeat-for-al-qaeda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
In a New York Times article by Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, analysts say that Al Qaeda has lashed out at President-elect Obama in a new video because he &#8220;challenged its worldview,&#8221; with his multiracial, multicultural background.
Mazzetti and Shane wrote, &#8220;American antiterrorism officials and other experts dismissed the video as a desperate tactic by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synthetic life: security implications</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/31/synthetic-life-security-implications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/31/synthetic-life-security-implications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post recently detailed developments in synthetic life: microorganisms guided by completely artificial DNA.
While there are many upsides &#8212; artificial organisms might be able to produce cheap biofuels and high-tech chemicals &#8212; this technology also has potentially dire security implications.
A biotech watchdog organization, the ETC Group, put it this way:
Ultimately synthetic biology means cheaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorism: bases and nukes</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/21/terrorism-bases-and-nukes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/21/terrorism-bases-and-nukes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress polled 108 foreign affairs experts across the political spectrum about terrorism and related issues.
Asked what country is likely to be the next al Qaeda stronghold, the experts said:

Pakistan &#8212; 35%
Iraq &#8212; 22%
Somalia &#8212; 11%
Sudan &#8212; 8%
Afghanistan &#8212; 7%

The experts also put Pakistan at the head of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurgents vs. al-Qaeda in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/15/insurgents-vs-al-qaeda-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/15/insurgents-vs-al-qaeda-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Post offers credible evidence of an increasing split between Sunni insurgents and al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The local insurgents have tactical, strategic, and even moral issues with the al-Qaeda approach, and clashes between the groups have grown.
This suggests increased likelihood for two outcomes:

By peeling off the Islamist and global goals of al-Qaeda, it leaves the insurgents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morocco: Iraq&#8217;s long reach</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/20/morocco-iraqs-long-reach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/20/morocco-iraqs-long-reach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports today on the effect of the Iraq war on the other end of the Arab world, Morocco.
The most salient points:

Moroccans are being recruited to go off to Iraq by terrorist groups.  Extremist recruiters look for men who are particularly outraged by events there and in Palestine.
Extremist groups across North Africa, from [...]]]></description>
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