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NSA whistle-blowers want seized computers returned
Four former analysts at the National Security Agency who had complained that waste and mismanagement impeded efforts to protect America are trying to force authorities to return personal computers seized from their homes in 2007. Among those joining...Tags: FBI, Thomas Drake, Defense, Punishment, National Security
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The legacy of 9/11
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and serves as a point to measure the indelible impact that day has had on the American people. In recent weeks, much has been written and broadcast about the shock and horror of that day and its...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Defense, George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, U.S. Navy
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With bin Laden gone, strength shifts to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
Over the past two years, Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) global operational and ideological reach have added significant strategic depth to the besieged al-Qaida Senior Leadership organization (AQSL) in Afghanistan and Pakistan....Tags: England, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Armed Conflicts, Osama bin Laden, Ali Abdullah Saleh
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Was the U.S. right to kill al-Awlaki?
The killing of American-born, radical cleric and al-Qaida propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki by a CIA-operated drone last week is being touted as a major victory by U.S. counterterrorism officials. Mr. al-Awlaki has been described as a high-ranking figure in...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Defense, Osama bin Laden, Mass Media, Fort Hood (military base)
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Trying terror suspects in the U.S.: Tough and just
The debate over how the U.S. deals with suspected terrorists captured outside the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan flared up again last week when the Obama administration announced charges in New York against a Somali man with alleged ties to militant...Tags: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, FBI, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Somalia, Prisons
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NSA says classified information found on seized hard drives
The National Security Agency says it found top-secret information on hard drives that were seized in a failed espionage probe, and the agency is refusing to release the computers — despite the continued protests of their owners.
In court filings in...Tags: FBI, Misdemeanors, Thomas Drake, Fort Meade (military base), Government
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U.S. war on terror focuses on new battlefield: the Internet
A Woodlawn man watches online videos of Osama bin Laden, posts about jihad on his Facebook page, and — according to federal prosecutors — agrees to a plot to detonate a bomb at a military recruiting center in Catonsville. An Ellicott City...Tags: FBI, Somalia, Ellicott City, Bombings, Osama bin Laden
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Bin Laden was a salesman, and his followers were duped into buying it
One thinks of that scene from "The Wizard of Oz" where Toto pulls back the curtain and the "great and powerful Oz" is revealed to be only an old man manipulating a smoke and fire machine. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" bellows the...Tags: Terrorism, Defense, Osama bin Laden, Guerrilla Activity, Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Ex-soldier from Laurel charged with trying to join terrorist group in Somalia
Craig Benedict Baxam was surfing the Internet from his Army base in South Korea last summer when he came across an Islamic religious website.
The soldier from Laurel had never been particularly religious. But with his deployment and his time in the...Tags: FBI, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Somalia, Osama bin Laden, Punishment
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Time to leave Iraq
President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year was greeted with jeers in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail from Republicans who said the U.S. was ignominiously bowing to...Tags: International Military Interventions, George W. Bush, Democracy, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Iraq
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The U.S. should keep its troops in Iraq
Regarding your article "Obama: Troops out of Iraq by Dec 31, 2011" (Oct. ), it shows of poor judgment on President Obama's part to make such a decision when it could be interpreted as a political campaign ploy for the 2012 election. I think the U.S....Tags: Barack Obama, Guerrilla Activity, Political Campaigns, Wars and Interventions, Iraq
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Ignoring climate change science isn't smart
Richard Haddad's anti-science screed ("Get past alarmism on global warming," Oct. 26) reminds me uncannily of the previous White House's readiness to disregard well-grounded warnings from their political opponents, as when Bush administration officials...Tags: Saddam Hussein, White House, Osama bin Laden, Guerrilla Activity, Science
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