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Osama’s “Will” was recently released by a Kuwaiti newspaper. The title of the document is misleading — a will, as a document that distributes assets and property, is not recognized in Islam, as inheritance must take place in accordance with Shariah principles. The document is in fact a final message to his children (not to join Al Qaeda) and wives (don’t remarry!). It was written in December 2001 — when Osama was on the run in Afghanistan and when he thought he might be killed. Notably, there is no message or mention of people such as Mullah Omar or Ayman Al Zawahiri, his comrades in arms in Afghanistan.
ComingAnarchy.com
(Note: I started this series of posts many months ago with the intent of completing it in short order. Life, as it so often does, got in the way... If you are new to the series or you have forgotten what the excitement was all about, I recommend beginning at the beginning. For the rest of you, thank you for your patience!) At the highest level, intelligence clearly supports the decisionmaking process.
Sources And Methods
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The Strategist
zenpundit.com
[ by Charles Cameron -- King Solomon's battle order in the Qur'an, the speech of ants, science confirms scripture, two possible directions of scriptural interpretation ] One thing I have been puzzling over is the relationship between highly charged metaphysical realities in battle, and the physical personnel and materiel of war, in posts such as Quantity and Quality: angelic hosts at Badr and / or Armageddon and More “night watch” than “guardian angels” perhaps . This Qur’anic passage, 27.16-19 which I shall quote in the Marmaduke Pickthall version, presents an interesting “battle order” in this regard: And Solomon was David’s heir. And he said: O mankind! Lo!
Bellum
Ambassador Ryan Crocker As the “surge” unfolded in Iraq in 2007 and 2008, two men became the public face of the counterinsurgency campaign: General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. While the former has remained in the spotlight, the latter has quietly retired from a distinguished diplomatic career to Texas A&M University, where he now serves as dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service. Bellum was lucky enough to catch up with him over the phone. General Brent Scowcroft Time Magazine’s Joe Klein called him Yoda .
Defense Review
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Conservative Policy Research and Analysis | The Heritage Foundat
With nowhere else to go, Obama has fallen back to his most comfortable setting – class warfare. Now that it is painfully obvious the Buffett Rule is the President’s chief policy priority. Read More Americans looked to President Obama to set a bold and decisive course when he huddled yesterday with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. Regrettably, serious discussion of these overarching issues was not forthcoming.
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Featured Briefing - March 30, 2012 The emerging BRICS economies agree that the West should hold less sway in the global economy. But their leaders, despite regular summits, have failed to articulate a coherent vision because of divergent interests, says journalist Martin Wolf.
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