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Hamaswood? Top Terror Tourist Traps

(July 20) -- Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based paramilitary group, now has its own museum. Hamas, in Gaza, has a cultural center. It seems the latest phase of the war on terrorism may be the battle for popular culture. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that countries and groups on all sides of the conflict are opening...

Embassy Security Pits US Image Vs. US Lives

(April 5) -- On a crisp spring day in 1983, Muslim militants launched an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, detonating an explosives-packed van stolen from the facility a year earlier. The explosion killed more than 60 people, including embassy personnel and Marines. Today, some 27 years later, another ambitious...

How Real Is Pakistan's New Tack on Taliban?

(Feb. 25) -- Revelations this week that Pakistan has arrested up to half of the resident Afghan Taliban leadership, known as the Quetta Shura, has raised hopes that a reluctant neighbor is finally coming around to supporting the U.S.- led war in Afghanistan. The arrests over the last few weeks -- including the detention...

DOJ Finds No Misconduct by Bush Interrogation Lawyers

WASHINGTON (Feb. 20) -- The Justice Department is closing the books on its probe of the Bush administration lawyers whose legal memorandums authorized the CIA to waterboard terrorism suspects, but the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains offended by the memos and will hold hearings An internal review...

UK Court Publishes Details of Alleged CIA Torture

LONDON (Feb. 10) – A London court on Wednesday ordered the British government to disclose confidential U.S. intelligence showing that a British resident and former Guantanamo Bay inmate suffered "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" while in American custody. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband had previously...