Tom Engelhardt | Mapping a World From Hell: 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington's War on Terror




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U.S. troops file out of a Chinook military helicopter on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. (photo: AP) 
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch 
Engelhardt writes: "A glance at the map tells you that the war on terror, an increasingly complex set of intertwined conflicts, is now a remarkably global phenomenon." 
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