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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Megan Flanagan

Megan Flanagan

Kandahar attack: More than 30 killed at airport - CNN.com - 0 views

  • Fifty people have died in an attack at a market bazaar and a school near Kandahar airport that began late Tuesday
  • 38 civilians, 10 Afghan National Army soldiers and two policemen
  • Nine terrorists were also killed
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  • The Taliban took responsibility for the attack.
  • assault occurred hours after a "Message to Obama" was posted to a video site, purportedly of Taliban suicide attackers warning that U.S. troops would not be safe in Afghanistan
  • claimed 11 attackers were killed and that the airport property was never penetrated.
Megan Flanagan

War on ISIS: Why Arab states aren't doing more - CNN.com - 0 views

  • Even Germany, whose post-World War II constitution puts restrictions on fighting battles on foreign soil, is becoming increasingly involved.
  • appears that the involvement of the U.S.-led coalition's Arab members -- all of them much closer geographically to the terror group than their Western partners -- is drawing down.
  • Analysts say Yemen is at the center of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the region's biggest powers.
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  • Religion and ethnicity are at the heart of the longstanding hostility
  • The critical shift was the coalition in Yemen,
  • ISIS doesn't just exist in Syria and Iraq -- it has major constituency supporters in almost all Arab countries, including Saudi, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan
  • Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are also less inclined to carry out strikes against ISIS targets if doing so helps Iran's allies in Damascus and Baghda
  • There's been the idea that ISIS is a bigger challenge for Iran and its allies than it is for the Arab states, even though this feeling is changing now."
  • no individual country is likely to risk it, and no nation has a mandate to act on behalf of everyone else.
  • the over-involvement by the army in the internal affairs of the state has become acceptable, but when it comes to foreign intervention, it becomes problematic
Megan Flanagan

It's not Fiorina who is wrong in the Planned Parenthood fight - LA Times - 0 views

  • This is about the character of our nation, and if we will not stand up and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on us.
  • The exact scene, exactly as Fiorina describes it, is not on the videos. But anybody who has watched the videos would find Fiorina's account pretty accurate
  • videos involve hidden camera conversations with current Planned Parenthood managers, as well as interviews with veterans of the abortion industry, discussing the selling of fetal body parts for research purposes
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  • include eyewitness descriptions accompanied by borrowed footage of a fetus dying in a metal bowl
  • goal is to conceal the fact that late-term abortions offend the conscience when discussed or displayed with anything like journalistic accuracy
  • videos weren't merely "edited" but "highly edited."
  • the videos were "misleadingly edited" and "inaccurate."
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