Sunday, 14 June 2009

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'Lone wolf' terrorists elusive target for police (AP)  

2009-06-14 06:24

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Some of the first people enter the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington Friday, June 12, 2009. The museum was closed Thursday, for a day, after a shooting on Wednesday left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside a military recruiting office. Another man opens fire in a Kansas church.


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Nuclear terror would strain day-after bomb sleuths (AP)  

2009-06-14 04:00

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AP - If the unthinkable happened, would we be left on the day after, as radioactive dust settled, with the unknowable?
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Judge rules terrorist can sue over torture memos (AP)  

2009-06-13 19:56

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AP - A convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture, ruled a federal judge has ruled who said he was trying to balance a clash between war and the defense of personal freedoms.
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Fighting the war on terror with outsourcing (AFP)  

2009-06-13 16:06

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Computer programmer Muhammad Husshan, 20, works at the Hubport call center at the Mindanao State University campus in Iligan, in the southern Philippines in May 2009. Husshan is among the lucky few Muslim youths employed by the Nevada-based company, in a joint project with the US government to teach American English to Muslim youths as part of a campaign to wean them away from Islamic militancy.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)AFP - When American consumers dial a toll-free hotline for customer service support, they may not be aware they are helping bring an end to a long-running insurgency half way across the world.


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Feds ask court to reconsider CIA renditions suit (AP)  

2009-06-13 02:49

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AP - The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow a Boeing Co. subsidiary to be sued for allegedly flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons overseas to be tortured.
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Communities at risk, but coal ash sites secret (AP)  

2009-06-13 01:26

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AP - Dozens of communities nationwide are at risk from a coal ash spill like the one that blanketed a Tennessee neighborhood last year, but the Obama administration has decided not to tell the public about it because of the danger of a terrorist attack.
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U.S. sends 3 Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia (Reuters)  

2009-06-12 23:36

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Reuters - Three detainees from Guantanamo Bay were transferred to Saudi Arabia "under appropriate security measures," the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday, in another step toward President Barack Obama's goal of closing the prison for terrorism suspects.
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Republicans hammer Democrats on Guantanamo (Reuters)  

2009-06-12 18:22

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Reuters - Republican U.S. lawmakers are digging in their heels over President Barack Obama's plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison for foreign terrorism suspects, demanding details of his efforts, limits on detainee movements and thorough risk assessments.
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Terror drill: 'New York, you have a problem' (AP)  

2009-06-12 12:52

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This June 9, 2009 photo released by the New York City Police Department, shows an NYPD officer using a device to detect nuclear emissions as he inspects a vehicle believed to contain a mock nuclear device, in New York. This exercise was conducted by the NYPD and federal agencies to test New York City's ability to deal with a potential threat from a nuclear device smuggled into the city. Once the mock device, which was specially designed to emit safe levels of neutrons, was discovered aboard the vehicle, supervisors observed how the participants diffused and transported it. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - The FBI was scrambling.


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Pakistan attack targets moderate cleric (The Christian Science...  

2009-06-12 09:00

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The Christian Science Monitor - The killing of an outspoken anti-Taliban cleric in a suicide-bomb attack in the eastern city of Lahore on Friday has raised the question of whether militants are attempting to stoke sectarian violence as they step up their campaign of terror in Pakistan's towns and cities.
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Holocaust Memorial shooting renews concern about military vets' ties...  

2009-06-12 09:00

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The Christian Science Monitor - Three of the attackers in the recent spate of extremist violence across the United States, including Wednesday's shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, had military experience, adding credence to a much-criticized Department of Homeland Security report earlier this year warning of radicalization and indoctrination of former US soldiers.
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Deal provides $534M in stop-loss bonuses (AP)  

2009-06-12 00:06

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AP - The House and Senate reached a compromise Thursday to give a $500 retroactive bonus to soldiers for every month they were forced to stay in the military beyond their enlistment term since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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McCain urges Obama to classify detainee photos (Reuters)  

2009-06-11 22:43

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Senator John McCain speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo April 10, 2009. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - Republican Senator John McCain and three allies urged President Barack Obama on Thursday to classify photographs said to depict the abuse of terrorism suspects to ensure they do not become public.


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ACLU sues to show White House interrogation link (AP)  

2009-06-11 21:15

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AP - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Thursday to try to prove there is a close link between the White House under President George W. Bush and a program of rough interrogation techniques used against suspected terrorists.
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‘Special Master’ Feinberg Takes on Bankers After 9/11 ...  

2009-06-11 19:36

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Bloomberg - June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Kenneth R. Feinberg, who mediated disputes over compensation for damages from the Sept. 11 attacks and Agent Orange, must now separate bankers from their paychecks.
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U.S. sends four Uighur detainees to Bermuda (Reuters)  

2009-06-11 18:58

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Reuters - Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration's latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects.
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China objects to Palau resettling Guantanamo men (AP)  

2009-06-11 18:33

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FILE - This July 2005 file photo originally provided by the Army Corps of Engineers shows an aerial view of two causeways built on the northeast coast of the island of Babeldoab, the largest of Palau's more than 300 islands. The U.S. had built a 53-mile road on the largest of Palau's islands in 2005,, fulfilling a promise Washington made when the Pacific nation gained independence in 1994. It was announced Wednesday, June 10, 2009, that Palau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the major obstacles to closing the U.S. prison camp.(AP Photo/ Army Corps of Engineers,file)AP - Palau's president said Thursday that his tiny Pacific nation's tradition of hospitality prompted the decision to take in 13 Chinese Muslims in limbo at Guantanamo Bay, but China called them "terrorist suspects" and demanded they be sent home.


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Younus reveals impact of terror attacks on Pakistan team (AFP)  

2009-06-11 17:57

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Pakistan captain Younus Khan, pictured in May 2009, has admitted life beyond the boundary in his troubled homeland was having an effect on his side.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Pakistan captain Younus Khan has admitted life beyond the boundary in his troubled homeland was having an effect on his side.


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Holocaust Museum Shooting, Other Recent Attacks Prove Domestic...  

2009-06-11 16:56

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Sarah Langston, from Takoma Park, Md., left, prays as another woman lights a candle near a makeshift memorial after members of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington held their interfaith solidarity gathering at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009, a day after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)U.S. News & World Report - A month before a suspected white supremacist walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington and opened fire, the Department of Homeland Security warned that domestic right-wing extremism was the most pressing domestic terrorist threat that the country faced. [See photos of the scene at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum]


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Gadhafi faces tough questions from Italy students (AP)  

2009-06-11 20:18

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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi smiles prior to the start of a joint press conference with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at Rome's Villa Madama, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Gadhafi is on a three-day official visit to Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi faced angry protests and tough questions on human rights Thursday as he gave a speech at a Rome university during his first visit to Italy.


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