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- Albany [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Atheism [r]: The belief that there is no God, or there are no gods; on a popular usage, the mere lack of any belief in any God or gods also qualifies as atheism, though philosophers more often call this agnosticism. [e]
- Balkan peninsula [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CIA activities in Europe and Russia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- Communism [r]: A political ideology, and also a system of government, according to which the means of production (including all large business concerns) should be controlled by the government. [e]
- Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
- David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer [e]
- Dialect continuum [r]: Range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area, differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close, and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. [e]
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad [r]: A jihadist organization formed in the 1970s, dormant by the 1990s, with the more extreme members probably in al-Qaeda along with the leader of the time, Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
- El-Masri v. Tenet [r]: A case involving extrajudicial detention, in which the U.S. government stopped a lawsuit by a person captured due to an error in identification, by invoking the state secrets privilege; the dismissal was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and has been as a strong precedent for a wide interpretation of the privilege [e]
- European Environment Agency [r]: An agency of the European Union (EU) established to function as a major source of information and data to be used in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy by its member European countries. [e]
- European Union [r]: Hybrid intergovernmental and supranational organization, which consists of 27 European states. [e]
- Europe [r]: Sixth largest continent; area 10,000,000 km2; pop. 720,000,000 [e]
- Euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering. [e]
- Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [r]: An Egyptian cleric, captured by U.S. and Italian intelligence officers in Italy, sent by extraordinary rendition to Egypt, and later released; Italy indicted intelligence personnel involved in the rendition and the trial is ongoing [e]
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S. [r]: Policies, techniques and practices of United States interrogation in a national intelligence-gathering context. (See Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration for recent detailed discussions) [e]
- Khaled el-Masri [r]: A naturalized German citizen, who had been in U.S. extrajudicial detention, released, and sued the U.S. but had his case, el-Masri v. Tenet, rejected based on the state secrets privilege [e]
- Macedonian language [r]: A language in the Eastern group of South Slavic languages and the official language of the Republic of Macedonia. [e]
- Montenegro [r]: South-east European, former Yugoslav republic (population c. 678,000; capital Podgorica) off the north-eastern Adriatic Sea, bordering Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania. [e]
- Mountain range [r]: Chain of mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys. [e]
- Naples [r]: City in Southern Italy, capital of Campania. [e]
- Republic of Macedonia [r]: Former Yugoslav republic (population c. 2.1 million; capital Skopje), landlocked in south-eastern Europe between Kosovo and Serbia to the north and Greece to the south, Albania to the west and Bulgaria to the east. [e]
- Russian language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Serbia [r]: Landlocked, former Yugoslav republic (population c. 10.2 million; capital Belgrade) in south-eastern Europe, having borders with Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia. [e]
- U.S. government training of foreign police [r]: The scope of U.S. activities in the training of foreign police, where the major emphasis is on learning skills rather than their immediate application in a cooperative international law enforcement effort [e]
