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Gallup reviews five key findings related to Americans’ perceptions of terrorism.

1. 42% of Americans are worried that either they or a member of their family will be the victim of a terrorist attack. That’s 3 percentage points higher than last year and the slight increase may have been caused by the attempted Christmas bombing. keep reading…

The latest American Bill proposed by a couple of people belonging to republican and the democrat group, calls for the retrieval of American troops from the land of Pakistan where they are indulged in operations against the militants.

“We have known that US forces have been operating in secret inside the territories of Pakistan without congressional approval,” Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich said on Friday, pointing to reports the United States was stepping up its presence there. He futher added that the House of Representatives was expected to take up the resolution next week. The measure was introduced late on Thursday.

He pointed out that such operations against the militants are direct violation of the 1973 War Power Resolution that was proposed after the war of Veitnam. This resolution confines the power of sending troops into military operations to the president alone and imposes a condition that the United States of America must be under a chronic threat of anarchy, only then the president would be allowed to send troops. Read more…

It is said that Afghanistan is the “Graveyard of Empires”. You might not believe it because it makes no sense that how the country which has no Institutions, no regular Army, no Economy has defeated the largest Empires of their times. The common man in Afghanistan is living a life of Stone Age in 21st century. Read more…