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Senate approves Brennan as CIA chief
WASHINGTONÂ — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ending weeks of delay as lawmakers sought access to secret Obama administration documents about the targeted killing of militants overseas...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, John Brennan, Espionage and Intelligence, Justice System, U.S. Senate
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Bin Laden kin to face terror-related charges in New York
WASHINGTON -- The FBI and CIA helped capture an Al Qaeda spokesman who was Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and have flown him to New York City from Jordan to face terrorism-related charges, U.S. officials say. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, an Al Qaeda...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, John Kerry, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Justice System
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Ex-U.S. soldier accused of joining Al Qaeda-linked group in Syria
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities arrested and charged a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran turned Middle East "freedom fighter" with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction — a rocket-propelled grenade — after allegedly joining Al...
Tags: Iraq, Police Arrests, Police Investigations, Bashar Assad, FBI
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Somali pleads guilty to terrorism charges
WASHINGTON — A Somali suspect who was captured at sea two years ago and interrogated aboard a U.S. warship has pleaded guilty to aiding terrorist groups Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, federal prosecutors said, a success for the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, U.S. Congress, Justice System
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France says it won't negotiate to free kidnapped family
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The stakes are high for France: the lives of four French children, their parents, a relative and nine other French hostages being held by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Nigeria and Mali. But France, entrenched in a war in...
Tags: Barack Obama, Vaccines, Mali, Wars and Interventions, Nigeria
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Gunmen kidnap seven more French nationals in Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Gunmen on motorcycles kidnapped seven French tourists, including four children, who had been staying at a nature reserve in Cameroon near its border with Nigerian border, French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday....
Tags: Nigeria, Wars and Interventions, Kidnapping, Francois Hollande, Cameroon
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Nigeria extremists claim responsibility for kidnapping 7 foreigners
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- An extremist splinter group Monday claimed responsibility for the weekend kidnapping of seven foreigners in northern Nigeria. The group, Ansaru, broke away from the Islamist insurgent organization Boko Haram, which has been...
Tags: Mali, Nigeria, Wars and Interventions, Goodluck Jonathan, Afghanistan
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A second opinion on drone strikes
The idea that the federal courts should play some role in deciding whether the government may kill U.S. citizens abroad allied with Al Qaeda has suddenly gained traction in Washington. During confirmation hearings for John Brennan, President Obama's...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, John Brennan, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Justice System
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Maliki resists Kerry's call to halt flow of Iranian arms to Syria
BAGHDAD – Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Sunday to stop Iran from flying arms across Iraqi territory to the beleaguered Syrian regime, but found him unwilling to give ground. In a visit to Baghdad that...
Tags: John Kerry, Wars and Interventions, Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Congress, Palestinian National Authority
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Al Qaeda group claims to have beheaded a French hostage
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb, one of the violent Al Qaeda-linked militias active in North and West Africa, claims to have executed a French hostage in retaliation for France's military operation in Mali. France...
Tags: Mali, Kidnapping, Francois Hollande, Africa, France
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Feinstein: A better path to justice
The recent arraignment of Sulaiman abu Ghaith in a New York courtroom was an important moment in the ongoing effort to bring senior Al Qaeda figures to justice. But that's not how everyone saw it. Critics complain that he should have been taken to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Prosecution, Justice System, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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