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Eight recent conflicts (plus Kosovo and Haiti, which the authors contend are vital to U.S. national interest) meet these criteria.
On the policy side, Atlas and Thorne contend that the combined Hudson-Bergen entity would not be able to take over the community and economic development-type services Passaic Legal Aid has been providing along with the core litigation services traditionally offered by legal aid providers.
The chief defense attorney, Stephen Jones, stated, "We certainly will contend that there is a John Doe 2, and maybe 3, 4, and 5." Such a plurality of Does is typically cause to invoke the variant forms.
Such spectacles, they contend, make a lurid mockery of their tribal rituals.
Although U.S. authorities have not uncovered evidence that anyone met with Atta or Binalshibh in Spain in July 2001, Spanish investigators contend that members of the Spanish al Qaeda cell were involved in the July meeting and were connected to the 9/11 attacks.