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To: Travis McGee

In the one serious toe-to-toe dustup between the Communists and the Islamists, the Communists backed out. Of course, the Islamists had some outside help, and the home turf advantage.


142 posted on 04/14/2012 8:12:53 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I think by the 1980s, the Russians (still running the USSR, which was on its last legs) invaded Afghanistan for geopolitical purposes. The communist ideology wrapping the USSR was by then a transparent shell. So I wouldn't even call that war “communism vs islamism,” but just “Russia vs Afghanistan.”
144 posted on 04/14/2012 10:26:00 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Here is is Twitter pic: "I'm a REALLY intense terrorism expert type journalist."

In other pics, he has a full beard and he looks a lot older.

147 posted on 04/14/2012 12:46:23 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Smokin' Joe; CodeToad; Joe Brower

Here’s the bio from his website. No LE or Military, just “journ-o-lism” for decades back. Note the topic of his next book, and how it ties into his approach to me, in his mind. He seems to be an apologist for islam, and a real hater of “militias” etc, that old libtard boogyman, which he links directly to white racism.

http://jmberger.egoplex.com/

BIOGRAPHY

J.M. Berger has been a journalist for 25 years, working in every form of media from newspapers to New Media, radio and television. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, the CTC Sentinel, the New York Daily News and the Boston Globe, and on National Public Radio, Public Radio International and the National Geographic Channel.

In addition to working internationally as an investigative reporter studying terrorism, he is an award-winning business writer and has covered science, technology and religion. He is currently working on a book about the FBI’s infiltration of white supremacist and militia groups in the United States.

Berger consults on homegrown terrorism and online extremism. He has presented research for counterterrorism professionals such as the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence Division, New Jersey state law enforcement, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University and more.


150 posted on 04/14/2012 1:06:23 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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