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Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

Taliban rising and fighting. We’ll ask who and what the Taliban really is today.

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Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

A new plan for Afghanistan. Pakistan, too. We’ll look at the Obama strategy and what it’s up against.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10:00 am

Barack Obama says the prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay must be closed. We’ll ask how.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 10:00 am

Seven years after 9/11, has Al Qaeda achieved its goals? And if so, does America need to rethink its post-9/11 strategy?

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 10:00 am

The big news in Western media out of Al Qaeda country lately is that Al Qaeda is in trouble. That the spearhead of global terrorism is being rejected by mainstream Muslims sick of death and destruction, even rejected by onetime theorists of jihad.
New Yorker magazine reporter Lawrence Wright has gone deep on what he calls [...]

 
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On Point is headed west!
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