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467 “to legitimize Shariah”: Glazov, “Shariah Finance.”

468 “create Islamic enclaves”: Ibid.

469 “Those entering into”: Cal Thomas, “Surrender!,” HumanEvents.com, July 8, 2008, www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27394.

470 “Islamic legal principles”: Ibid.

471 “seems unavoidable and”: “Archbishop: Adoption of Shariah Law in U.K. Is ‘Unavoidable,’” FoxNews.com, February 7, 2008, www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329389,00.html.

472 Incredibly, Muslims in the: Ibid.

473 “Muslim women are prohibited…of their children”: Thomas, “Surrender!”

474 “Shariah-compliant schools”: Gaffney, “Shariah’s Trojan Horse.”

475 In December 2007…“the killing of many people”: Vincent Giola, “Shariah Banking: The Silent Jihad Against the West,” ChronWatch.com, May 3, 2008, www.chronwatch-america.com/blogs/964/Shariah-Banking—The-Silent-Jihad-Against-the-West.html.

476 “there is, of course”: Glazov, “Shariah Finance.”

477 He cites the example: Ibid.

478 “Western involvement is key”: Ibid.

479 “jumped into [Shariah-compliant financing]”: Ibid.

480 “once [Shariah-compliant finance]”: Glazov, “Shariah Finance.”

481 The current flirtation: Baron Bodissey, “Exposing Shariah Finance,” April 15, 2008, http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/04/exposing-shariah-finance.html.

482 “it is very likely”: The McCormick Foundation and the Center for Security Policy, “Shariah, Law and ‘Financial Jihad’: How Should America Respond?” www.scribd.com/doc/9930309/Jihad-Report.

483 Even after the market crashes: Charles Watson, “Cashed-Up Sovereign Wealth Funds Wait for Rock Bottom,” InvestorDaily.com.au, www.investordaily.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/id/style/5867.htm?rdeCOQ=SID-3F579BCE-F3F1CFD2&rdeCOQ=SID-3F579BCE-09256BC7.

484 “there will be”: E-mail from Frank Gaffney to authors, February 23, 2009.

485 “preferred stock”: Jamie Glazov, “No Bailout for Jihad,” FrontPageMagazine.com, December 23, 2008, www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B0152451-565E-4F35-A293-D6E7A39EB8BD.

486 “by anyone’s definition”: Ibid.

487 “whatever AIG is doing”: Ibid.

488 “intentionally promotes Shariah”: Ibid.

489 “To help achieve”: Ibid.

490 “is to review”: Ibid.

491 Under the program: Ibid.

14. HOW BILL CLINTON GOOFED…COSTING YOU $60 BILLION

492 It’s estimated that their blunder: Edmund L. Andrews, “Oil Company Revives Suit on Avoidance of Royalties,”
New York Times
, March 3, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/business/03royalties.html?n=Top/News/Business/Companies/Anadarko%20Petroleum%20Corp.

493 which usually run between: Ibid.

494 So, in 1996: Ibid.

495 Deepwater oil production: Marc Humphries, “Royalty Relief for U.S. Deepwater Oil and Gas Leases,” September 18, 2008, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/110359.pdf.

496 In the
next
two years: H. Josef Hebert, “House Votes to Recoup Lease Royalties,”
USA Today
, July 27, 2007, www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-07-27-1953281366_x.htm.

497 By 2000, the Interior Department: Ibid.

498 By 2006: Humphries, “Royalty Relief for U.S. Deepwater Oil and Gas Leases.”

499 By the time all the oil: Ibid.

500 Patricia Minaldi: Andrews, “Oil Company Revives Suit on Avoidance of Royalties.”

501 Sustaining Minaldi’s ruling: Nick Snow, “Appeals Court Backs Earlier Kerr-McGee Deepwater Ruling,”
Oil and Gas Journal,
January 14, 2008, www.ogj.com/display_article/350304/7/ONART/none/GenIn/1/Appeals-court-backs-earlier-Kerr-McGee-deepwater-ruling/.

502 The intent of Congress: Ibid.

503 “If the court’s interpretation”: Ibid.

504 the Government Accountability Office: Andrews, “Oil Company Revives Suit on Avoidance of Royalties.”

505 At a time when: Tom Doggett, “Lawmaker Urges US Govt to Fight Oil Royalty Ruling,” Reuters.com, November 1, 2007, www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN0145493420071101.

506 “will result in the oil”: Ibid.

507 In July 2007: Humphries, “Royalty Relief for U.S. Deepwater Oil and Gas Leases.”

15. TARMAC HOSTAGES: HOW AIRLINES IMPRISON YOU ON THE RUNWAY

508 “food, water, electricity”: Marilyn Adams, “Airlines Hope to Block Flier Bill of Rights,”
USA Today
, December 10, 2007, www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2007-12-10-stranding-law_N.htm.

509 In the first ten: Ibid.

510 During the same: “Passenger Rights,”
Washington Post
, January 12, 2008, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011103506.html.

511 Passengers have a right: Kate Hanni, “Canada Got Their Airline Passengers Bill of Rights Why Can’t We Have Ours!,” FlyersRights.org, September 15, 2008, www.strandedpassengers.blogspot.com.

512 Guaranteed customer notification: “Bill of Rights,” JetBlue.com, www.jetblue.com/p/about/ourcompany/promise/Bill_Of_Rights.pdf.

513 “the air and toilets”: Tom Zeller Jr., “Held Hostage on the Tarmac: Time for a Passenger Bill of Rights?,”
New York Times
, February 16, 2007, http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/held-hostage-on-the-tarmac-time-for-a-passenger-bill-of-rights/.

514 After hours of sitting: Scott McCartney, “Runway-Bound: A Holiday Flight Becomes Ugly,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 6, 2007, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116804368966768690.html.

515 “after eight hours”: Ibid.

516 “according to airline officials”: Ibid.

517 This “pivotal decision”: Ibid.

518 “allowed about 20”: Ibid.

519 “conditions in the”: Ibid.

520 The chairman of the House Committee: Mike Collins, “Airlines Get 500 Million in Your Tax Dollars and Passengers Get Nothing,” StrandedPassengers.blogspot.com, September 22, 2008, www.strandedpassengers.blogspot.com/.

521 While the task force: “DOT Tarmac Delay Task Force Declines to Set Time Limits,” November 14, 2008, www.atwonline.com/news/story.html?storyID=14709.

522 The doctrine of: Steve Surjaputra, “Proposed Rule Would Allow Passengers to Sue over Tarmac Delays,” Tripso.com, December 4, 2008, www.tripso.com/today/proposed-rule-would-allow-passengers-to-sue-over-tarmac-delays/.

523 The airlines have ratcheted: Center for Responsive Politics, www.opensecret.org/industries/indus.php?ind=T110.

524 For example: Charlie Leocha, “American Airlines May Have Violated Ethics Rules,” Tripso. com, January 30, 2009, www.tripso.com/today/american-airlines-may-have-violated-ethics-rules/.

525 It requires airlines to: “Proposed Bill of Rights for Airline Passengers,” FlyersRights.org, www.flyersrights.org/billofrights.html.

16. THE SILENT CATASTROPHE: POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN OUR MILITARY

526 In January 2009: Jason Leopold, “Obama Proposes Bigger VA Budget as Pentagon Grapples with Widespread Panic,” TheVeteransProject.org, February 26, 2009, www.theveteransproject.org/?p=336.

527 “terrifying. We don’t know”: Barbara Starr and Mike Mount, “Army Official: Suicides in January ‘Terrifying,’” CNN.com, February 5, 2009, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/05/army.suicides/.

528 Twenty-four soldiers: Ibid.

529 Colonel Kathy Platoni: Ibid.

530 “the highest annual level”: Ibid.

531 One hundred and twenty-eight: Ibid.

532 Marine suicides also rose: Ibid.

533 “there is still a huge”: Ibid.

534 10 percent of the returning soldiers: Associated Press and Reuters, “1 in 10 U.S. Iraq Veterans Suffers Stress Disorder,” MSNBC.com, March 1, 2006, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11609834/.

535 Out of 222,620: Associated Press and Reuters, “1 in 10 U.S. Iraq Veterans Suffers Stress Disorder.”

536 Of those diagnosed: Ibid.

537 In their study: Carl A. Castro, Dave I. Cotting, Charles W. Hoge, Robert L. Koffman, Dennis McGurk, and Shephen C. Messer, “Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care,”
New England Journal of Medicine,
351, no. 1 (July 1, 2004): 13–22, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/1/13.

538 RAND says that: Office of Media Relations, “One in Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer from PTSD or Major Depression,” Rand.org, April 17, 2008, www.rand.org/news/press/2008/04/17/.

539 The study also found: Ibid.

540 And 7 percent have: Ibid.

541 RAND estimates that: Ibid.

542 “There is a major”: Ibid.

543 “produces a wide”: William M. Welch, “Trauma of Iraq War Haunting Thousands Returning Home,”
USA Today
, February 28, 2005, www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-02-28-cover-iraq-injuries_x.htm.

544 “feel depression, detachment”: Associated Press, “1 in 8 Returning Soldiers Suffers from PTSD.”

545 “Jesus Bocanegra”: Welch, “Trauma of Iraq War Haunting Thousands Returning Home.”

546 “Lieutenant Julian Goodrum”: Ibid.

547 “Sean Huze”: Ibid.

548 “Allen Walsh”: Ibid.

549 Sergeant Danny Facto: Sangay Gupta, “Combat Stress: The War Within,” CNN.com, July 1, 2004, http://edition.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/post.traumatic.stress/index.html.

550 “You can’t just say”: Ibid.

551 Ninety percent report: Ibid.

552
The New England Journal
: Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, “Iraq War Takes Toll on GIs’ Mental Health,” FoxNews.com, September 25, 2004, www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133490,00.html.

553 “There are no clear”: Ibid.

554 “Robinson said men”: Ibid.

555 “I know from walking”: Ibid.

556 “Some talk about fathers”: Ibid.

557 “I wasn’t functioning”: Ibid.

558 “After struggling through”: Ibid.

559 “The message was”: Ibid.

560 “Of those whose responses”: Castro, Cotting, Hoge et al., “Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care.”

561 “In the past five years”: Shankar Vedantam, “A Political Debate on Stress Disorder,”
Washington Post
, December 27, 2005, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/26/AR2005122600792.html.

562 “because the increase”: Ibid.

563 “we have young”: Ibid.

564 Those who are: Ibid.

565 “once veterans are”: Ibid.

566 “adversarial relationship”: Ibid.

567 “they are unwilling”: Ibid.

568 “what they [the VA]”: Ibid.

569 The RAND Corporation: Office of Media Relations, “One in Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer from PTSD or Major Depression.”

570 “If PTSD and depression”: Ibid.

571 “many are worried”: Ibid.

572 “the military create a system”: Ibid.

573 “Only about one”: Gregg Soroya, “Many War Vets’ Stress Disorders Go Untreated,”
USA Today,
May 10, 2006, www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-05-10-veterans-disorders_x.htm.

574 “We are not…prepared for this”: Vlahos, “Iraq War Takes Toll on GIs’ Mental Health.”

575 “The [Veterans Administration]…fixed now”: Ibid.

576 “establish quality standards”: “About the Defense Centers of Excellence,” DCOE.health.mil, www.dcoe.health.mil/default.aspx.

577 “can deal with everything”: Jeff Schogol, “Outreach Center Created to Aid Veterans and Families,”
Stars and Stripes
, January 16, 2009, www.dcoe.health.mil/NewsItem.aspx?ID=27.

578 “service members can talk”: Jeff Schogol, “Pentagon Hopes Stories Help Troops with PTSD,”
Stars and Stripes
, February 9, 2009, www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=60587.

579
Ajax
by Sophocles: Ibid.

580 President Obama’s budget request: Paul Sullivan, “Veterans for Common Sense Statement Responding to President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 VA Budget Request,” VeteransforCommonSense.org, February 26, 2009, www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/12424.

581 The VA says: Ibid.

582 “provides greater benefits”: Ibid.

583 The VA lauded the additional: Ibid.