60 Words And A War Without End:

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60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History

 

Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks.

But more than 12 years later, this sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Here’s how it came to be, and what it’s since come to mean. posted on January 16, 2014 at 11:52pm EST

 

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Sunrise was still nearly an hour off when Nazih al-Ruqai climbed into his black Hyundai SUV outside a mosque in northern Tripoli and turned the key. The lanky 49-year-old had left the house barely 30 minutes earlier for a quick trip to the mosque on a Saturday. It was Oct. 5, 2013, and after more than two decades in exile, he had settled into a predictable existence of prayer and worship.

 

The homecoming hadn’t always been so smooth. Ruqai, who is better known in the jihadi world as Abu Anas al-Libi, was still feeling the effects of the hepatitis C he had contracted years earlier during a stint in an underground prison in Iran. Following overtures from Muammar al-Qaddafi’s government, his wife and children had returned to Libya in 2010. But Libi stayed away, wary of the man he had once plotted to kill. Only when the Libyan uprisings started in early 2011 did he follow his family back to Libya. But by then it was already too late. His oldest son, Abd al-Rahman,

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Did Gregory Johnsen get paid by the word? I started to read this and after getting about 1/2 through I am still trying to figure out where he is going in this rambling piece.

There are really bad people out there who need to be killed, and this war (make no mistake it is a for really war) is going to continue for quite some time....think Cold War time frame.

 

 

Skipped to the end.....

A lot has changed in the 12 years since Stephen Rademaker and his son Andrew took their midnight drive to a smoldering Pentagon.

 

 

Not really. Not if you dig down 2 inches below the surface.