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My Georgetown colleague, Bruce Hoffman, has an outstanding op ed in today’s Washington Post discussing al-Qaeda’s new terror strategy and the need for the Administration to develop its own. Hoffman explains the “five core elements” of the al-Qaeda strategy:
First, al-Qaeda is increasingly focused on overwhelming, distracting and exhausting us. To this end, it seeks to flood our already information-overloaded national …

CIA Director Leon Paneta has an op ed in Sunday’s Washington Post. He writes:
The horrible news Dec. 30 that a suicide bomber had taken seven American lives in Afghanistan may have been for some a stark reminder that we are at war. But the men and women of the CIA, whose colleagues these seven were, needed no reminder.
The main lesson …

Remarks on the Five Year Anniversary of The Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Scott Gration
Special Envoy to Sudan

Treaty Room

Washington, DC

January 8, 2010

SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning. Five years ago this week, the longest running war in Africa came to a close. The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan ended a stubborn and violent civil conflict between …

The White House
Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release
January 07, 2010

Remarks by the President on Strengthening Intelligence and Aviation Security
State Dining Room
4:34 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  The immediate reviews that I ordered after the failed Christmas terrorist attack are now complete.  I was just briefed on the findings and recommendations for reform, and I believe it’s important that …

President Obama’s Directive to the Intelligence Agencies on “Corrective Actions” can be found here.

Joshua Mitchell: Starting a Private University in Iraq

On leave from the government department of Georgetown University, Joshua Mitchell, acting chancellor of the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani, talks about the challenges of starting a private university in a country damaged by years of war. He also shares the special pitch he gives prospective faculty members.
(From the Chronicle of Higher …

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Indicted for Attempted Bombing of Flight 253 on Christmas Day
Defendant Faces Life in Prison if Convicted

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, was charged today in a six-count criminal indictment returned in the Eastern District of Michigan for his alleged …

You might have missed this . . . The Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review reports:

Two tiny islets in the Aegean that brought Turkey and Greece to the brink of war 14 years ago have now become the battleground for a virtual war.
The cyber war erupted when a Greek flag was placed on the Kardak (Imia in Greek) islets in Google …