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long-established Al Qaeda networks used to feed fighters first into<br />

Afghanistan during <strong>the</strong> 1980′s, <strong>the</strong>n into Afghanistan and Iraq during<br />

America’s occupation <strong>of</strong> both nations over <strong>the</strong> past decade.<br />

The documented details <strong>of</strong> this network were exposed in <strong>the</strong><br />

extensive academic efforts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> US Army’s own West Point Combating<br />

Terrorism Center (CTC). Two reports were published between 2007 and<br />

2008 revealing a global network <strong>of</strong> Al Qaeda affiliated terror<br />

organizations, and how <strong>the</strong>y mobilized to send a large influx <strong>of</strong> foreign<br />

fighters into Iraq.<br />

The first report, “Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq,” was<br />

extensively cited by historian and geopolitical analyst Dr. Webster Tarpley<br />

in March <strong>of</strong> 2011, exposing that NATO-backed “pro-democracy” rebels in<br />

Libya were in fact Al Qaeda’s Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),<br />

listed by <strong>the</strong> US State Department, United Nations, and <strong>the</strong> UK Home<br />

Office (page 5, .pdf) as an international terrorist organization.<br />

The West Point report exposed Libya as a global epicenter for Al<br />

Qaeda training and recruitment, producing more fighters per capita than<br />

even Saudi Arabia, and producing more foreign fighters than any o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

nation that sent militants to Iraq, except Saudi Arabia itself. Read More<br />

Health, Education, Science and Welfare:<br />

LAUSD False Imprisonment Of Teachers<br />

Doesn’t Balance Students Safety With Teachers Rights<br />

(Daily News Reporter Barbara Jones reports in her article "LAUSD<br />

'jails' fill with teachers as misconduct complaints rise" that "<strong>the</strong> cost is<br />

enormous: $1.4 million a month in salaries...and $865,000 to hire<br />

substitutes. What nei<strong>the</strong>r she nor any o<strong>the</strong>r mainstream media reporter<br />

tells you is that this short term loss to LAUSD is more than compensated<br />

for when <strong>the</strong>se housed, jailed or rubber room teachers- pick you<br />

euphemism- are coerced into resigning or are ultimately dismissed.<br />

Last year LAUSD brought false and <strong>of</strong>ten completely fabricated<br />

charges on <strong>the</strong> vast majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 853 teachers it forced out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir jobs,<br />

who were at <strong>the</strong> top <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> salary scale or about to vest in expensive

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