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George Bush recently declared that we are at war with “Islamic fascism.” Muslim-American groups were quick to express furor at the expression. Middle Eastern autocracies complained that it was provocative and insensitive.
Critics of the term chosen by the president, however, should remember what al-Qaida, the Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas and other extremist Muslim [...]

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In 1996, five countries�China, Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan�formed an organiza�tion, the Shanghai Five, to resolve border disputes among its members. With the addition of Uzbekistan in 2001, it became the Shanghai Cooperation Organi�zation (SCO), a grouping of Russia, China, and a number of under-developed and developing nations with little to bind [...]

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has embarked on a military buildup, to counter alleged U.S. plans to invade his country, and has recently visited Rus­sia, Iran, China, Syria, and other countries to final­ize purchases and lobby for a seat on the U.N. Security Council. Chavez’s aggressive policies could endanger U.S. allies in Latin [...]

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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said Arab countries decided at a meeting on Wednesday to seek nuclear energy. The decision was made at a time of sensitivity about nuclear issues in the region, as the United States accuses Iran of having a secret program to develop atomic weapons while Arab states say [...]

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President Chen Shui-bian (???) said on Tuesday that China would have the capability to launch a “large-scale” invasion of Taiwan by 2010, but added Taiwan was capable of fighting back.
In an interview with Reuters and a South Pacific island magazine, Chen added that by 2015 China would have the means to win [...]

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TEHRAN, Sept. 6 (UPI) — Iran has announced major developments in its military arsenal, including a sophisticated version of the U.S. F-18 fighter and a new type of guided bomb.
The Iranian News Agency, IRNA, Wednesday quoted the General Commander of the Iranian Army Atallah Salihi as saying the new Iranian-made plane, Saiqa, [...]

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Terrorists and rogue states find friend in Chinese regime.
Is China a possible partner in the war against terror, as it depicts itself? Or is it on the other side of this war?
In a meeting between President Bush and the former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin in February 2002, [...]

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He concludes that if Iran has nuclear weapons, its leaders will not adopt the restrictions accepted by the heads of the other nuclear states. There is great concern, he writes, that after arming themselves with nuclear bombs, the ayatollahs will launch them at Israel.
“A direct attack on the U.S., though possible, is [...]

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At the very least we need right now to add Syria and Venezuela to country list. Others such as Somalia, Sudan and Nigeria may need to be added if they continue down the present path. And we’d better make certain that we open a category for non-governmental terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, [...]

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