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• What's next for Iraq?
  A former Pentagon official offers his insight on the current military situation in Iraq.August 9, 2005
• Minnesota National Guard prepares its largest ever deployment
  The head of the Minnesota National Guard says the state's largest troop deployment since World War II will take place next year. More than 2,000 Minnesota citizen soldiers will ship out to the Persian Gulf with most headed for Iraq. Guard troops say Department of Defense efforts to keep them better informed and to provide more support for their families, are helping to ease the strain of their war-time service.August 7, 2005
• Revisiting Hiroshima
  It's been 60 years since the world's first use of the atomic bomb. A controversial historical theory re-examines President Truman's true motive for dropping A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.August 5, 2005
• Reclaiming Islam
  How have fundamentalists changed the world's view of Islam? A Muslim scholar discusses the challenges facing his religion and its followers.August 3, 2005
• No Place to Hide
  In the 1990s, the data industry mushroomed. Vast computer systems quietly gathered staggering amounts of personal information about virtually every American adult. After the 9/11 attacks, national security officials reached out to data companies for help in finding potential terrorists. American RadioWorks' "No Place to Hide" tracks the dawning of this brave new world of private and government surveillance.August 1, 2005
• War's end in Northern Ireland?
  The IRA says it will disarm. Now Irish Protestants and the British government are watching to see if this is truly the beginning of the end of the conflict known as "The Troubles".August 1, 2005
• Coming to terms with violence, poverty in Egypt
  Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has ended speculation over whether he would run again in elections scheduled for September. He will seek a fifth term in Egypt's first presidential election with more than one candidate.July 29, 2005
• Anti-war and pro-soldier
  The leader of a group representing military families talks about the difficulty of opposing the Iraq war while at the same time supporting the soldiers.July 27, 2005
• Terrorism cases: Highly complex and a bit bizarre
  For both prosecutors and defense attorneys, terrorism cases are so complex and secretive, they border on the bizarre.July 25, 2005
• Minnesota Marine killed in Iraq
  A Marine from Minnesota was killed in Iraq Saturday. Sgt. Bryan James Opskar, 32, grew up in Princeton. Officials with the Marine's Minneapolis office say Opskar died when a roadside bomb exploded. Opskar is being remembered as a leader and a team player.July 25, 2005
• Bombs hit London transit again
  The casualties appear lower and the bombs were apparently smaller, but two weeks to the day after Great Britain's worst attacks since World War II, explosions went off again in a London bus and subway stations. With London's heightened terrorism alert status, how were more attacks possible so soon?July 21, 2005
• British Jihad: Inside Out
  As details filter out about the young suicide terrorists who staged the London transit bombings, WBUR's 2004 documentary "British Jihad: Inside Out" gains new poignancy. It explores the growth of radical Islam in Great Britain's poor South Asian Muslim communities.July 18, 2005
• Is global terrorism getting stronger?
  From London and Madrid to Lebanon and Iraq, there are terrorist bombings in the newspaper almost daily. Nearly four years after the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., is global terrorism getting stronger?July 18, 2005
• Goodall sees "reason for hope"
  Celebrity primate researcher Jane Goodall says that, unfortunately, humans are probably hard-wired for violence. She has observed chimpanzees in the wild forming social groups, establishing territory, patrolling their borders and even killing intruders from other social groups. But in spite of all that, Goodall still sees a reason to hope for world peace.July 15, 2005
• Kline says Gitmo is no Abu Ghraib
  Members of Congress have been hearing from military and FBI officials this week about instances of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay. Military investigators told lawmakers they've found evidence of "degrading and abusive treatment" at the U.S. detention center there. U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., recently visited Guantanamo Bay. Kline says conditions at the detention center are nothing like conditions at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.July 14, 2005

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