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Terrorism Report 3.1 05/06/08
Potomac Institute reports recent terrorism news and original commentary by Senior Research Associate Chris Brown.


Terrorism Report 1.2 04/03/08

Potomac Institute debuts a new report with a roundup of recent terrorism news and original commentary by Senior Research Associate Chris Brown
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Use Money Transfers to Stop Illegal Immigrants
Dan Gallington

Mexican workers in the U.S. send an estimated $23 billion back home every year, typically in small amounts. Officially, these transfers are called "remittances" – just for some current perspective, it's more than Mexico's total annual tourism revenue, and until recently it was larger than their annual oil revenue!

'Head in sand' torture
Dan Gallington

As one of the very few think tankers who has written in support of the Bush administration's use of coercive interrogation techniques on terrorists — provided they were "non-U.S. persons," located overseas and not entitled to POW status — I have also noted that, to be lawful, the activity had to be authorized by the "appropriate level of authority."






Europe Whole and Free

David J. Smith
Following his April 16 quasi-annexation of the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russian President Vladmir Putin last week
rolled an additional 700 soldiers into Abkhazia .


ZOG+2

David J. Smith
NATO's failure to grant Membership Action Plans (MAP) to Georgia and Ukraine at the April 2-4 Bucharest Summit proved an instant geopolitical blunder.