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Foiled bomb plot shows new level of al Qaeda sophistication
CNNInvestigators were studying an explosive device Tuesday that they say terrorists in Yemen crafted to slip past airport metal detectors and onto an airplane bound for the United States. U.S. intelligence agents thwarted the plot two weeks ago after...Tags: Terrorism, Politics, Emergency Incidents, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FBI
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Al Qaeda Airliner Bomb Plot Foiled by Saudi Secret Agent
CNNWASHINGTON -- The agent who penetrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and returned from Yemen with the group's new "airline bomb" was always under Saudi control and was not a double-agent, two sources briefed by Saudi counterterrorism officials have...Tags: Christmas, Crime, Law and Justice, ABC (tv network), Mike J. Rogers, Police Investigations
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U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 10 Suspected Militants In Yemen
ReutersADEN (Reuters) - Two apparent U.S. drone attacks killed at least 10 suspected al Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen on Saturday, while Yemeni government forces killed 15 others in a new offensive against insurgents, local and military officials said. U.S....Tags: Government, Politics, Bulgaria, U.S. Department of Defense, National Government
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T M Fred Texas is first Arabian horse winner at Preakness
The jockey had raced an Arabian horse only once before and had never met the trainer before. The trainer, a former jockey himself, has never actually mounted an Arabian. The owner is an 18-year-old Shiek who, according to the trainer, knows very...
Tags: The Jockey Club Incorporated, Pimlico Race Course, Pimlico, United Arab Emirates, Equestrian
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One year after Bin Laden's death, Schiff warns of 'formidable challenge'
On the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) took note of the “grim satisfaction that justice was meted out to the worst mass murderer in American history.” The congressman released the statement on...
Tags: Pakistan, Adam Schiff, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)
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Key Al Qaeda Websites Go Dark
KTLA NewsWASHINGTON, DC -- Key al Qaeda online forums have fallen silent in the past two weeks, leaving terrorism experts to wonder the cause and whether a key communications mode of the terror group and its affiliates has been purposely undermined. The sites,...Tags: Government, Spain, Politics, The Washington Post, George W. Bush
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U.S: No threat tied to bin Laden's death anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP)— U.S. counterterrorism officials see no specific threat tied to next week’s one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. But they’re concerned about violence from al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen because...
Tags: FBI, Pakistan, Yemen, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Military
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Good for Eric Holder: The education of an attorney general
Paul GreenbergCan this be Eric Holder, our Eric Holder, the same attorney general of the United States who used to snub military law, who set out to close the military prison and courts at Guantanamo, who preferred to tie up Lower Manhattan with a showy civil trial...Tags: Eric Holder, Laws, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush
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Saudi Arabian students studying at Virginia Tech
WDBJ7 ReporterVirginia Tech's motto is invent the future, and now the university is leading the way by taking part in a unique program involving students from Saudi Arabia. It's no secret when it comes to higher education America leads the way. So Saudi Arabia has...Tags: Science, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Blacksburg, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Looking Back: Service to country included Vietnam and Desert Storm
etoadvine@heritagehospice.comJere McCumber has nothing against playing Frisbee, but he knows it has no place in the desert, especially one riddled with land mines. During his deployment to Saudi Arabia in Desert Storm, he had to command the men and women in his troop to stop a...Tags: Colon Cancer, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia
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President Obama's Terror Czar Defends Ray Kelly
pix11.com | @wpixJohn Brennan--the President's chief advisor on counter-terrorism--may have grown up in New Jersey .but he defended New York's police commissioner Friday against recent attacks from New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, about the NYPD's surveillance of some...Tags: Government, White House, Politics, Queens (New York City), New York City Police Department
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CIA drone kills former San Diego cleric
SANAA, Yemen -- Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda who was once an imam at a San Diego-area mosque, was killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen on Friday, U.S. officials said.
Al-Awlaki's death, confirmed by U.S. and Yemeni officials,...Tags: Politics, File Sharing, September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Government, Al-Qaeda
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