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		<title>CIA Put Dead Bomber in Terrorist Database in 2011</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/04/24/officials-dead-bomber-name-in-terrorism-database/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Eileen Sullivan and Kimberly Dozier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(WASHINGTON) — The federal government added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The CIA made the request to add Tamerlan Tsarnaev&#8217;s name to the terrorist database after the Russian government contacted the agency with concerns that he had become a follower of radical Islam. About six months earlier, the FBI had separately investigated Tsarnaev, also at Russia&#8217;s request, but the FBI found no ties to terrorism, officials said. The new disclosure that Tsarnaev was included within a huge, classified database of known and suspected terrorists before the attacks was expected to drive congressional inquiries in coming weeks about whether the Obama administration adequately investigated tips from Russia that Tsarnaev had posed a security threat. Shortly after the bombings, U.S. officials said the intelligence community had no information about threats to the marathon before the April 15 explosions. Tsarnaev died Friday in a police shootout hours before his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was discovered hiding in a boat in a suburban back yard. The terrorist database is called TIDE, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment. Analysts at the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center submit names and even partial names into TIDE. About a year ago, there were some 745,000 people listed in the database. Intelligence analysts scour TIDE, trying to establish connections and update files as new intelligence is uncovered. (MORE: Older Boston Suspect Made Two Trips to Dagestan, Visited Radical Mosque, Officials Say) For entries with a full name, date of birth and intelligence indicating a reasonable suspicion that a person is a terrorist or has terror ties, the person&#8217;s name is sent to a terror watch list, which feeds into lists like the one that bans known or suspected terrorists from traveling on planes. Officials say they never found the type of derogatory information on Tsarnaev that would have elevated his profile among counterterrorism investigators and placed him on the terror watch list. Five days after the U.S. determined who was allegedly behind the deadly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=118101&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>CIA</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/cia-2/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>11 Years Later: The Unquiet Hero</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/11/11-years-later-the-unquiet-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching ex-SEAL Matt Bissonnette on 60 Minutes was equal parts fascinating and disturbing.

Eleven years since the horror of 9/11, some of us watched, transfixed, as someone who gave his word never to write of what he had experienced without a U.S. government pre-pub scrub, circumspectly spilled his guts to Scott Pelley Sunday night.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=84289&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Bin Laden: Who Cares If He Fought Back?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/08/29/getting-bin-laden-who-cares-if-he-fought-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is what it comes down to: a former SEAL who participated in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden charges in his new book that the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people was simply killed when he stuck his head out of his bedroom door. He allegedly didn’t resist, as White House and Pentagon officials said he had in the hours and days following the May 2, 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The press goes wild: SEAL’s book: Bin Laden shot on sight, the Washington Post says. Osama bin Laden was killed by bullet to the brain before Navy SEALs arrived, book reveals, says the New York Daily News. SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden&#8217;s death, Businessweek says. They’re all reacting to stories by the Associated Press and the Huffington Post, who bought copies of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden at local bookstores. Ex-SEAL Matt Bissonnette has written the book, published by Dutton, under the pseudonym Mark Owen. Its official release date was moved from Sept. 11 to Sept. 4 on Tuesday. Bissonnette says he was right behind the “point man” as the SEAL team climbed the stairs in the bin Laden compound leading to his bedroom when he heard the muffled pops of a silencer equipped firearm. The point man, Bissonnette reports, fired when he spied a “man peeking out of the door” at the top of the stairs. The man – bin Laden – toppled back into the room. By the time the SEALs got to him, he had fallen to the floor with a bullet wound to the right side of his head. The SEALs trained their guns on the still-alive bin Laden and fired into him several times until they were sure he was dead. Whether or not bin Laden was armed is irrelevant. The U.S. military considered bombing his compound to smithereens with him and his family inside it, and whether or not he was armed at the time would have been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=82961&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Powers That Be</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/11/the-powers-that-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, the Air Force will award Francis Gary Powers – the pilot of the ill-fated U-2 spy plane shot down by the Soviets in 1960 and held captive for 21 months – a posthumous Silver Star. It&#8217;s the latest in a series of sorrys the U.S. has offered Powers&#8217; family following his poor treatment at the hands of the the government he risked his life to serve. His grandchildren are slated to accept the medal, more than 50 years after their grandfather came home to a national cold shoulder amid the chilliest days of the Cold War. General Norton Schwartz, the service&#8217;s chief of staff, will honor Powers for his &#8220;exceptional loyalty&#8221; while enduring tough interrogations in Soviet custody from May 1960 to February 1962. A Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missile downed his U-2 while he was flying a secret spy mission over Soviet territory. He ultimately was released in a spy swap. Aviation historian Walter Boyne wrote of the shameful way the nation greeted Powers when he finally made it home: By all rights, Powers deserved to be decorated at the White House—he had earned the honors. His many previous overflights had gathered incredibly important information, and he had shown his steadfast heroism in withstanding the torments of the Soviet system. Instead, he was badly treated by the government for which he had risked life and freedom. Powers resented that, upon his return, he was smeared by a rash of ill-founded commentary. Writers and commentators complained righteously that Powers had not blown up his aircraft, not committed suicide, and even that he had managed to survive the Soviet imprisonment. Far worse were the official positions taken by the very men who had backed the program, especially the CIA. The pilot had obeyed his orders exactly and defended himself and his country ably while on trial. The CIA failed to support him publicly or provide an adequate cover story for an event they knew was inevitable—a downed U-2. Powers died in 1977 when the news-gathering helicopter he was flying near Los<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=76113&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Military History</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/military-history/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>&#8220;Cost Realism&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/07/cost-realism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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	<primary_category>Intelligence</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/intelligence/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>White House Says al-Qaeda&#8217;s No. 2 Killed</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/05/al-qaedas-no-2-killed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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	<primary_category>Terrorism</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/terrorism-2/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Drone Worrier</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/04/drone-worrier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of the 1991 Gulf War – as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops streamed toward Iraq-occupied Kuwait – a U.S. Army officer remarked how much easier all this would be if someone – a Saddam Hussein turncoat, perhaps, or an American spy – put a bullet in the back of the Iraqi dictator&#8217;s head. It didn&#8217;t happen, of course, and it took two full wars before Hussein met his fate at the end of a hangman&#8217;s rope. And while the analogy is not perfect, President Obama&#8217;s stepped up campaign of drones strikes and &#8220;kill lists&#8221; is trying to do the same thing: nip troublemakers in the bud, before they can invade U.S. allies or kill Americans. Call it the legacy of terror, where national armies – easily monitored, easily targeted – have often been replaced by small groups of individuals, far tougher to track but retaining the capacity to do great damage. It&#8217;s simplistic, but true: Congress doesn&#8217;t want to be engaged in the messy business of declaring war. Besides, terrorists can be fleeting targets where consultation between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue is impractical. The public has grown tired of tending to the national-security garden. (MORE: An Inside Look at the U.S.-Pakistan Feud Over Drones) The horror of 9/11 is seared into Obama&#8217;s political DNA. He has ramped up the CIA and Pentagon&#8217;s worldwide campaign of drones strikes because he can, and because &#8212; at least in the tactical, short-term sense &#8212; it works. One of the greatest fears of any President is that &#8220;another 9/11&#8243; will happen on his or her watch. &#8220;We&#8217;re kind of at a turning point in the United States as we come to the end of 10 years of war,&#8221; Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Sunday in Vietnam. &#8220;We are clearly doing a great job at going after al Qaeda and their leadership and making clear that they will never again be able to put together the kind of plan that they were involved with when they attacked on 9/11.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=75519&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Neptune Spear: The New Textbook for Special Operators</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/05/02/operation-neptune-spear-the-new-textbook-for-special-operators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Rawlings</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year removed from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, hundreds of hours of programing and print pages are being devoted to to telling us what it all means. In this week&#8217;s issue of TIME, journalist Peter Bergen and historian Graham Allison walk us through the events that led up to Navy SEALs storming bin Laden&#8217;s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on a moonless night one year ago. But to truly understand what the raid means in the study of special operations, you have to go back much further, past Operations Eagle Claw, the disastrous 1980 attempt to rescue hostages from the American Embassy in Tehran, to Operation Thunderbolt. In July 1976, Israeli commandos stormed the airport at Entebbe, Uganda and rescued 105 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers (the animation on this video is second rate, but it gives a good overview of the raid). But wait a minute. What does a 36-year-old Israeli commando raid have to do with killing Osama bin Laden? Until last May, Operation Thunderbolt was considered the textbook direct action mission for students of special operations. For the past few years, Austin Long, an assistant professor at Columbia University&#8217;s School of International and Public Affairs, taught the Entebbe raid in his class on special operations in low intensity conflicts. This year, he&#8217;s teaching the bin Laden raid as the new textbook example of a direct-action mission. Long talked to Battleland about the lessons that can be learned from both operations, and why the success of the bin Laden raid points to an even brighter future for U.S. Special Operations forces. Why is the Entebbe raid so important in the understanding of special operations? Entebbe was fundamentally a special operation that had strategic as well as tactical consequences. It also showed the ability to conduct special operations at a very long range. Previously, most special operations were launched from somewhere relatively close by. At Entebbe, you have a special operation conducted at a range of hundreds of miles from Israel. It almost seemed impossible that they could pull this off. It’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=72971&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The tail of a crashed American helicopter sits beside the wall of the compound where Osama bin Laden hid until he was killed in a raid on May 2, 2011.</media:title>
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		<title>Petraeus of the CIA (Comedian-In-Action)</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/02/03/petraeus-of-the-cia-comedian-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny four-star generals are rare. Dave Petraeus got in a pickle several years ago when he picked on the Air Force, but now that he’s out of uniform and running the CIA, he zinged a safer target in remarks to the Reserve Officers Association earlier this week: senior officers: …I wanted to share with you a story from a recently declassified operation that took place in the Pacific Ocean area, an operation that, for the press, has been unreported until today. During this particular operation, one of our best reserve units was deployed to perform a sensitive mission on a desert island where they had to hire some local inhabitants as scouts and translators. It turned out, however, that the locals were cannibals. So the commander, who in his civilian life was an expert in foreign languages and in dealing with different cultures and whose ROA membership was current &#8212; (laughter) &#8212; no small point for the front row here &#8212; (laughter) &#8212; made a point of speaking to them before the contract was finalized. You&#8217;re part of our team now, he told the cannibals in their language; we&#8217;ll pay you well for your service, and we&#8217;ll allow you to eat any of our rations. But please, he said &#8212; please don&#8217;t eat any of our troopers. Well, the cannibals responded reassuringly and promised not to eat any of the unit&#8217;s soldiers, and they then shook hands with the commander and went to work. Everything was going smoothly until about four weeks later, when the commander called the cannibals together for a meeting. You&#8217;re all working hard, he said, and I&#8217;m very pleased with your performance. However, one of our sergeants has disappeared. Do any of you know what happened to him? The cannibals all shook their heads and professed to have no idea of the missing sergeant&#8217;s whereabouts. After the commander left, however, the leader of the cannibals turned to the others and asked sternly, which one of you idiots ate the sergeant? The cannibals all hung their heads<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=65648&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Obama’s Selective Sanctimony”</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/01/26/obamas-selective-sanctimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin, long one of the nation’s top torture-trackers, weighs in on the Obama Administration’s attitude toward torture – and doesn’t like what he sees: Torture! The Obama Administration is finally prosecuting someone in connection with torture! The only problem is that the case targets someone making a public disclosure about the problem, not a perpetrator of the act, or someone accused of covering it up. Read his full take here at the Project on Government Oversight, where Zagorin’s well-worn gumshoes now reside. ,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=64894&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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