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They know the fine print! The Washington Post Co (NYSE: WPO) founded by Stilson Hutchins in 1877, publishes newspapers, principally the Washington Post, The Herald and about 40 other Maryland community newspapers. It has interests in TV broadcasting, cable, magazines, education and career development services. This $3.55 billion company is based in Washington, DC and employs about 16,400 people. It owns six TV stations, a regional cable system, and an educational services firm, Kaplan. In 2005 the company bought Slate, the online magazine, from Microsoft Corp.
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'On Faith' Hosts Online Dialogue With Muslim Leaders About Terrorism and Human Rights
- 2007-07-19
To: FOREIGN EDITORSContact: Angela Hayes, +1-212-446-5104, ahayes@goldbergmcduffie.com, for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive WASHINGTON, July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive announced today that several leading Muslim clerics and thinkers from around the globe will participate in an unprecedented online dialogue about their religion, terrorism and human rights on the joint washingtonpost.com and Newsweek...
Cover to Cover
- 2006-09-01
CURRENT AFFAIRS Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks Penguin Press A Pulitzer Prize–winning military correspondent for The Washington Post presents an unpolemical yet blistering account of the planning for and execution of the war in Iraq. Inside Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman Columbia A revised and expanded edition of the RAND scholar’s...
2006 Ad
- 2006-06-22
The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report begins with a statement of strategic clarity: "The United States is a nation engaged in what will be a long war." (1) From the suburbs and cities of North America and Europe, to the deserts, jungles, and villages of Africa, the Middle East, and...
Somali Islamic militias tell US they reject terrorism
- 2006-06-16
WASHINGTON AFP — Islamic militia leaders in Somalia have reportedly written to the United States to stress that they reject terrorism and will not allow terrorists to transit through or hide in their territory. "Our communities have been subjected to terrorism longer than any community anywhere else in the...
Lynne Stewart, Jihadi lawyer.
- 2006-01-01
A federal court will soon sentence attorney Lynne Stewart to prison for "providing material support" to terrorists, among related charges. (1) The charges center upon her assistance to Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman who, from a federal prison cell in Minnesota, has continued his quest both...
How Chechnya became a breeding ground for terror.(political aspects)
- 2005-06-22
On September 1, 2004, a group of Chechen terrorists took hostage and two days later murdered at least 335 schoolchildren and parents in Beslan, a town in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. The atrocity focused world attention on Chechnya. The Russian government used the event...
Kerry-Edwards Fact Sheet: Bush vs. Reality - Debate Wrap Up (2/3)
- 2004-10-13
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a fact sheet from Kerry-Edwards 2004 (Part 2 of 3): TERROR: Bush Senior's NSA Advisor Called Terror "Horrible Nuisance" BUSH SAID: "My opponent just this weekend talked about how terrorism could be reduced to a nuisance, comparing it to prostitution, illegal gambling.."...
9/11 commission: no connection between diamonds and terrorism.(Diamond Notes)(Brief Article)
- 2004-09-01
There is no evidence that terrorists use diamonds to launder money, the bipartisan Sept. 11 Commission concluded recently. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The diamond-terrorism link has been the subject of articles, reports, and, most recently, a book--Blood from Stones, by Washington ...
9/11 Commission: No Connection Between Diamonds and Terrorism (JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone)
- 2004-09-01
There is no evidence that terrorists use diamonds to launder money, the bipartisan Sept. 11 Commission concluded recently. The diamond-terrorism link has been the subject of articles, reports, and, most recently, a book--Blood from Stones , by Washington Post reporter Douglas Farah. But...
Justice Department advised White House torture "may be justified"
- 2004-06-08
WASHINGTON AFP ? The US Justice Department advised the White House in an August 2002 memo that torture during interrogations in the war against terrorism could be justified, The Washington Post said. The memo, sent by the Justice Department's office of legal council in response to a Central Intelligence...
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