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n avoided, had the United States come in early and decisively on the side of the Syrian rebels. Instead, Obama vainly looked to both Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin to help end the war when he should have also been organizing an air campaign. That's what did the job in Bosnia, Kosovo and even Libya, where the o
ma vainly looked to both Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin to help end the war when he should have also bee
tead, Obama vainly looked to both Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin to help end the war when he should have al
and the eventual establishment of an Islamic caliphate. Scholastic (traditional) Salafism: EFTA00700343 This is the ancient and inherent type of Salafism that focuses on the search for legitimate knowledge — such as interpretation, hadith (sayings of the Prophet), jurisprudence, etc. — more than focu
utin Goes to War David Remnick March 1, 2014 -- Vladimir Putin, the Russian President and autocrat, had a
costs, and recent history has shown that when it considers its interests at stake, Russia has been willing to pay the price. Even before President Vladimir V. Putin on Saturday publicly declared his intent to send Russian troops into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, Mr. Obama and his team were already discuss
ent Russian news site, how the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, in 1979, under the pretext of helping a "fraternal" ally in Kabul; to Parkhomenko, Putin's decision to couch his military action as the "protection" of Russians living in Crimea is an equally transparent pretext. The same goes for the d
me then under the paracolonial aegis of Great Britain. The kingdom was organized in religious terms by a version of Sunni Islam called Wahabism (or Salafism). Wahabism is a very strict puritanical doctrine that was notably intolerant not only of religions other than Islam but of other versions of Islam
cal foe," or Obama's oversold "reset" with Moscow. The significant difference is that if Obama is reelected, he will seek to strike a new deal with Vladimir Putin to significantly cut the U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles. To do that, he acknowledged last March, he will have to compromise with Putin on U.S.
ladimir Putin to significantly cut the U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles. To do that, he acknowledged last March, he will have to compromise with Putin on U.S. and NATO plans for missile defense; in what he thought was a private aside, he told then-President Dmitry Medvedev that "after my election,
eelected, he will seek to strike a new deal with Vladimir Putin to significantly cut the U.S. and Russian
The exact motive remains unclear but many in Kazan seem to think it is related to the public campaign of both men to combat the rising influence of Salafism, a fundamentalist form of Islam. In Soviet times, Islam in Tatarstan was largely a means of ethnic identification and had something of a "folk" ch
Entities connected to both Vladimir Putin and Salafism

Barack Obama
PERSON
George W. Bush
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Prince Andrew
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Bill Clinton
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United States
LOCATIONLeon Black
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Marc Rich
PERSONKremlin
ORGANIZATION
Hillary Clinton
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Paul Ryan
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Samantha Power
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Tehran
LOCATION
Lebanon
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Alan Dershowitz
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Wilbur Ross
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Middle East
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
United Kingdom
LOCATION
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON