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War on Terror

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War on Terror

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia II - Alberto Gonzales - War on Terror

The Executive Order 13233, drafted by Gonzales and issued by George W. Bush on November 1, 2001 shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, placed limitations on the Freedom of Information Act by restricting access to the records of former presidents. Gonzales authored a controversial memo in January of 2002 that explored whether Article III of the Geneva Convention even applied to Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan and held in concentration facilities around the world, including Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ...

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Alberto Gonzales, Alberto Gonzales - Personal background, Alberto Gonzales - Texas career, Alberto Gonzales - List of Texas Supreme Court Opinions Concurrences and Dissents by Gonzales, Alberto Gonzales - War on Terror, Alberto Gonzales - Attorney General nomination and confirmation, Alberto Gonzales - Possible Supreme Court nomination, Alberto Gonzales - O'Connor Vacancy, Alberto Gonzales - Rehnquist Vacancy, Alberto Gonzales - Quotes

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia II - Geostrategy in Central Asia - War on Terror

In the context of the United States' War on Terror, Central Asia has once again become the center of geostrategic calculations. Pakistan's status has been upgraded to a "major non-NATO ally" because of its central role in serving as a staging point for the invasion of Afghanistan, providing intelligence on Al-Qaeda operations in the region, and leading the hunt on Osama bin Laden, believed to still be in the region as of 2005. Afghanistan, which had served as a haven and source of support for Al-Qaeda, under the protection of Mullah Omar and ...

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Geostrategy in Central Asia, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic geography, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Strategic locations, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Great Game, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Debated and Debatable zone, Geostrategy in Central Asia - The Heartland, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Soviet collapse, Geostrategy in Central Asia - Oil politics, Geostrategy in Central Asia - War on Terror

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - War to end all wars

World War I (then known as The Great War) was at the time and in the years just after described as the "war to end all wars" (or, in the jargon of the French Poilus: "la der des der", i.e. "the last of the last"). The phrase was in part a reaction to the horrors of the conflict with many believing that with the full cost of modern war so evident no nation would fight one again. It was partially an outgrowth of the original reasons for going to war seeming insignificant as the conflict dragged on, and the notion was adopt ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Camp Delta

Camp Delta, Echo, X-Ray, and Iguana are prisons at Guantanamo Bay. As of July 22, 2005 there are "about 510 prisoners at Guantánamo." [1] Camp Delta - Camp Delta. Camp Delta (composed of detention camps: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Camp Echo) is located in the U.S. naval base that stands on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. It is a permanent 612-unit detention center. Construction of the camp began on February 27, 2002 with workers from Kellog, Brown and Root, Navy Seabees and Marine Engineers. It finished approximately ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - U.S. presidential election, 2004

The U.S. presidential election of 2004 was won by the incumbent President, Republican George W. Bush, who defeated his main rival, Democratic Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. One of the main issues was the conduct of the War on Terror. Bush defended the actions of his administration, while Kerry contended that the war had been fought incompetently, and that the Iraq War was a distraction from the War on Terror, not a part of it. The popular vote election took place on Election Day, November 2, but it was not until the ne ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia II - War on Terra - Origin and meanings

Jon Stewart did a segment about the War on Terra as a means by which Bush supposedly intended to destroy Mother Nature. Beginning with a report about melting ice caps in the Arctic Circle, Stewart claimed, "There is near-universal consensus that the melting is due to global warming, though the Bush administration counters that the ice caps are not melting; rather, the water has been liberated." Later, he transitioned to the issue of endangered species: "Of course, wrecking the planet is an abstract and long-term proposition. There's a more c ...

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War on Terra, War on Terra - Origin and meanings, War on Terra - Popular usage

Read more here: » War on Terra: Encyclopedia II - War on Terra - Origin and meanings

War on Terror: Encyclopedia II - Operation Enduring Freedom - U.S. invasion

On September 22, 2001, as the U.S. blamed Osama bin Laden and his hosts, the Taliban, for the September 11, 2001 attacks, the United Arab Emirates and later Saudi Arabia withdrew their recognition of the Taliban as the legal government of Afghanistan, leaving neighboring Pakistan as the only remaining country with diplomatic ties. When threatened with retributive attack by the U.S. for harboring al-Qaeda, the Taliban government offered to judge Osama bin Laden in an Islamic court, and later, to hand him over to a neutral country for a war cr ...

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Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom - Overview, Operation Enduring Freedom - The Taliban, Operation Enduring Freedom - The Connection Between The Taliban and al-Qaida, Operation Enduring Freedom - U.S. invasion, Operation Enduring Freedom - Effectiveness of the invasion of Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom - The Future of OEF, Operation Enduring Freedom - Casualties

Read more here: » Operation Enduring Freedom: Encyclopedia II - Operation Enduring Freedom - U.S. invasion

War on Terror: Encyclopedia - 1990s

The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia II - Commander-in-Chief - Commonwealth

In the Commonwealth of Nations, as elsewhere, the head of state invariably holds the title of Commander-in-Chief, though it is usual for Governors and Governors-General also to be Commander-in-Chief in their respective territories. Commander-in-Chief - Australia. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia provides that: "The command in chief of the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor-General as the Queen's representative".

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Commander-in-Chief, Commander-in-Chief - Commonwealth, Commander-in-Chief - Australia, Commander-in-Chief - Canada, Commander-in-Chief - Hong Kong, Commander-in-Chief - New Zealand, Commander-in-Chief - United Kingdom, Commander-in-Chief - Egypt, Commander-in-Chief - France, Commander-in-Chief - Germany, Commander-in-Chief - India, Commander-in-Chief - People's Republic of China, Commander-in-Chief - Switzerland, Commander-in-Chief - United States, Commander-in-Chief - Commander-in-Chief reserved for the President, Commander-in-Chief - Political implications, Commander-in-Chief - Authority as Commander-in-Chief on the battlefield

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - World War III

World War III is the name given to a hypothetical world war that would be fought after World War II. Most usages of the term include the use of weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons. In the latter half of the 20th century, military confrontation between the superpowers was considered to pose an extreme threat to establishing world peace, when the Cold War saw the capitalist United States face the communist Soviet Union. If this confrontation had escalated into full-scale war, it was widely thought that the conflic ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party

BARTON ACT 2600 Political parties Elections The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australia's oldest political party. It is so-named because of its origins in and close links to the trade union movement. While it is standard practice in Australian English to spell the word labour with an "-our" ending, the name of the party ends with "-or". Australian Labor Party - Policy. Like other social democratic parties, Labor tends to believe that government is generally a positive fo ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - 2000s

This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2001, see the links below. 2000s - The decade as a whole. The 2000s decade refers to the years from 2000 to 2009, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. So far, the 2000s has been marked generally with an escalation of the social issues a ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - U.S. presidential election 2004

The U.S. presidential election of 2004 was won by the incumbent President, Republican George W. Bush, who defeated his main rival, Democratic Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. One of the main issues was the conduct of the War on Terror. Bush defended the actions of his administration, while Kerry contended that the war had been fought incompetently, and that the Iraq War was a distraction from the War on Terror, not a part of it. The popular vote election took place on Election Day, November 2, but it was not until the ne ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Tony Blair

The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. He has led the Labour Party since July 1994, (following the death of John Smith in May of that year) and brought Labour into power with a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, replacing John Major as Prime Minister and ending 18 years of Conservative government. He is now the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister, and the only person to have led the party ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia II - Operation Enduring Freedom - Overview

OEF commenced on October 7, 2001, with "early combat operations operations [including] a mix of air strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers; carrier-based F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet fighters; and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U.S. and British ships and submarines."[2] "The initial military objectives of Operation Enduring Freedom, as articulated by President George W. Bush in his Sept. 20th Address to a Joint Session of Congress and his Oct. 7th address to country, include the de ...

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Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom - Overview, Operation Enduring Freedom - The Taliban, Operation Enduring Freedom - The Connection Between The Taliban and al-Qaida, Operation Enduring Freedom - U.S. invasion, Operation Enduring Freedom - Effectiveness of the invasion of Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom - The Future of OEF, Operation Enduring Freedom - Casualties

Read more here: » Operation Enduring Freedom: Encyclopedia II - Operation Enduring Freedom - Overview

War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Christian right

Christian Right is a term collectively referring to a spectrum of conservative Christian political and social movements and organizations characterized by their strong support of social values they deem traditional in the United States and other western countries. The terms Christian Right and Religious right are sometimes used interchangeably, although this is problematic (see discussion at Religious right). Christian right - Pejorative sense. The term Christian Right is often used in a derogatory o ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Ward Churchill

Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer, activist, and academic. He is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and author of over a dozen books and many essays. Churchill was widely discussed and criticized in the mass media during 2005, stimulated by publicity given to a 2001 essay in which Churchill questioned the innocence of the those people killed in the World Trade Center attacks, labeling them as "technocrats" and "little Eichmanns." Ward Churchill - Backgr ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Weapons of mass destruction

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) generally include nuclear, biological, chemical and, increasingly, radiological weapons. The term first arose in 1937 in reference to the mass destruction of Guernica, Spain, by aerial bombardment. Following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and progressing through the Cold War, the term came to refer more to non-conventional weapons. The terms ABC, NBC, and CBRN have been used synonymously with WMD, although nuclear weapons have the greatest capacity to cause mass destruction. The phrase entered popular usage in rel ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Aftermath of the September 11 2001 attacks

This article talks about the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Some of the most important issues are listed here. The news shocked the world. Men and women wept openly. People watched the television coverage in stores (or at the nearest television set), while others followed the news on the internet. The event left a lasting impression on many Americans. The question, "Where were you on September 11, 2001?" has become a common topic of discussion, and will be for years to come. Aftermath of the S ...

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War on Terror: Encyclopedia - Alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop or Underground rap is a style of hip hop music distinguished by beats, samples, and lyrics that differ from the general template of popular commercial hip hop. Positive lyrics are often a hallmark of alternative hip hop. Although some listeners may associate live instrumentation with alternative hip hop, this distinction is invalid because popular rap acts like J-Kwon use live instruments as well. Alternative hip hop artists generally have not achieved much or any mainstream success, although they are often ...

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