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		<title>Narrative Closure Eludes Obama in Latest Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The president announced that we were "turning the page" on Operation Freedom; but what he failed to do was close the book.


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<li><a href='http://comops.org/journal/2009/12/02/obamas-speech-didnt-close-the-narrative-gap/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Obama&#8217;s Speech Didn&#8217;t Close the Narrative Gap'>Obama&#8217;s Speech Didn&#8217;t Close the Narrative Gap</a> <small>by Bud Goodall Yesterday&#8217;s speech by President Barack Obama at...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://comops.org/journal/2009/10/07/the-afghanistan-narrative-gap-and-its-consequences/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Afghanistan Narrative Gap and Its Consequences'>The Afghanistan Narrative Gap and Its Consequences</a> <small>by Bud Goodall One of the important challenges of President...</small></li>
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		<link>http://comops.org/journal/2010/09/01/narrative-closure-eludes-obama-in-latest-speech/</link>
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		<title>News from Indonesia: Basyir charged with supporting Aceh terrorist camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Chris Lundry Indonesian police have charged Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Basyir with supporting terrorism for his role in the the Jemaah Islamiyah training camp in Aceh. He has been accused of participating in planning and funding the project and ordering others to commit terrorist acts, and police reported finding progress reports and videos from [...]


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<li><a href='http://comops.org/journal/2010/05/11/recent-arrests-in-indonesia/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Recent arrests in Indonesia'>Recent arrests in Indonesia</a> <small>by Chris Lundry Indonesian police have continued to make arrests of...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://comops.org/journal/2010/05/13/lessons-from-aceh-terrorist-de-radicalization/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Lessons from Aceh Terrorist De-Radicalization'>Lessons from Aceh Terrorist De-Radicalization</a> <small>by Steven R. Corman The Consortium for Strategic Communication has...</small></li>
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		<link>http://comops.org/journal/2010/08/25/news-from-indonesia-basyir-charged-with-supporting-aceh-terrorist-camp/</link>
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		<title>Mosque Controversy Widens Say-Do Gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jeffry R. Halverson In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Indian novelist and activist Arundhati Roy wrote an opinion piece in the British daily The Guardian, stating: [Bin Laden] has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by American foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its [...]


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		<link>http://comops.org/journal/2010/08/18/mosque-controversy-widens-say-do-gap/</link>
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		<title>Prohibiting  the Burkah = Liberating Women?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Woodward and Inayah Rohmaniyah* Efforts in European countries including France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands to restrict or prohibit women from wearing burkah and nikab (face veil) are well known in Indonesia. Reports about these efforts in the Indonesian media are overwhelming negative. There is no visible support for these efforts even among [...]


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		<link>http://comops.org/journal/2010/07/27/prohibiting-the-burkah-liberating-women/</link>
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		<title>Update from Indonesia and Singapore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Chris Lundry While in Singapore for the ICA conference with colleagues from the CSC, interesting news kept coming in from Indonesia concerning its ongoing fight against terrorism. It was quite a contrast to what appeared to be the biggest story in Singapore: the conviction of a foreigner who spray-painted a train, a story that [...]


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<li><a href='http://comops.org/journal/2010/03/04/recent-events-in-indonesia-and-the-philippines/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Recent Events in Indonesia and the Philippines'>Recent Events in Indonesia and the Philippines</a> <small>Having recently returned from a brief (four-day!) trip to Indonesia...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://comops.org/journal/2010/04/26/new-icg-report-on-jihadists-in-aceh-indonesia/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: New ICG Report on Jihadists in Aceh, Indonesia'>New ICG Report on Jihadists in Aceh, Indonesia</a> <small>by Chris Lundry The International Crisis Group has issued another...</small></li>
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		<link>http://comops.org/journal/2010/07/13/update-from-indonesia-and-singapore/</link>
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		<title>A New Strategy for Somalia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by R. Bennett Furlow To say Somalia has problems would be the very definition of an understatement.  Piracy has certainly received its share of attention, primarily because it is sensational and somewhat easy to comprehend.  The chaos in the south also gets some attention due to the rise of Islamists groups and the potential for [...]


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		<link>http://comops.org/journal/2010/07/07/a-new-strategy-for-somalia/</link>
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		<title>Why Some Islamists are Violent and Others Aren&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Steven R. Corman For some time people who think about the problem of terrorism have faced a puzzling question: Why is it that some Muslims who hold fundamentalist or radical beliefs about Islam become violent, while others don&#8217;t? New research shows that the answer is probably not what you might think. A popular view is that [...]


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		<title>Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jeffry R. Halverson The following is a summary of some arguments  from my new book, Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood, Ash&#8217;arism, and Political Sunnism, published by Palgrave Macmillan.  It offers an explanation of why fundamentalist literal interpretations of the Qu&#8217;ran have so much influence in contemporary Islamist extremism, and why [...]


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<li><a href='http://comops.org/journal/2009/12/12/why-moderate-islam-is-the-wrong-language/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Why &#8220;Moderate Islam&#8221; is the Wrong Language'>Why &#8220;Moderate Islam&#8221; is the Wrong Language</a> <small>by Mark Woodward* The terminology used in English and other...</small></li>
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		<link>http://comops.org/journal/2010/05/18/theology-and-creed-in-sunni-islam/</link>
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		<title>Lessons from Aceh Terrorist De-Radicalization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Steven R. Corman The Consortium for Strategic Communication has released a new white paper by Mark Woodward, Ali Amin, and Inayah Rohmaniyah entitled Lessons from Aceh Terrorist De-Radicalization.  The full white paper can be downloaded here. The executive summary is as follows: Although the International Crisis Group’s reports on radicalism in Indonesia are extremely [...]


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		<title>Recent arrests in Indonesia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Chris Lundry Indonesian police have continued to make arrests of those with suspected ties to terrorism, including 14 people in the last week. Remarkably, many of those arrested have direct ties to firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Basyir and the organization he founded in 2008, Jemaah Anshoru Tauhid (JAT, the Supporters of Monotheism). According to the [...]


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