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067776
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On 5 February 2003, the then US Secretary of State, Gen Colin Powell had said at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that, “Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network, headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda lieutenants.” This was an important part of Powell’s false case for an aggression against Iraq and its then president, Saddam Hussain. The world came to know of Zarqawi then for the first time. On 27 December 2004, Osama Bin Laden, the emir of al-Qaeda, declared Zarqawi as the emir al-Qaeda (The Base) in Iraq. Powell’s seemingly prophetic words bore fruit not when Saddam Hussain was at the helm, but when Iraq was under the occupation of the Anglo-American coalition.....
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067777
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2006.
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Terrorism is today a global scourge and nations have to face the challenge in the best manner that they can within the framework of their political and legal systems. But, when terrorist groups hijack passenger airplanes and smash them into targets like the World Trade Centre in New York, killing themselves and thousands of others in the process, only then the world’s preeminent power the . ...
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067778
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2006.
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The American experience of custody of nuclear weapons is of contemporary interest because they were initially produced under military control, and then transferred to a civilian Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the armed forces had to conduct a sustained campaign to wrest the custody of the stockpile. ...
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067775
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2006.
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The chances of violent internal conflicts have increased in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda or its surrogates are well entrenched in all the three countries. The situation in Iraq has shown little improvement despite the recent elections. It seems that al-Qaeda and the domestic insurgents had no plans to obstruct the elections. According to MSNBC analyst and terrorist expert Walid Phares: “Al-Zarqawi and his allies have learned from previous elections if they’re going to obstruct elections, ...
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