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Abdulmutallab Given Miranda Warning After He Stopped Talking

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The decision to advise the accused Christmas Day attacker of his right to remain silent was made after teleconferences involving at least four governm...

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Reading the Pictures: Stripped Naked By Al-Qaeda (and I Haven't Even Been to the Airport)

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Abdulmutallab didn't even need to detonate his explosive to to literally scare the pants off the non-Muslim world with all these photos of near-naked airline passengers.

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Yemen Confirms Suspect Was In Country

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN'A, Yemen — Yemen's government said Monday that the Nigerian accused in the Christmas day attack on a U.S. airliner visited Yemen this year, ...

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Obama: The Buck Stops With Me

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures tha...

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Somali Arrested At Airport With Chemicals, Syringe

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN, KATHARINE HOURELD and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. officials are investigating a Somali man's alleged attempt to board a flight bound for Djibouti and Dubai last month c...

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Abdulmutallab, Christmas Bomber Suspect, Gets First Day In Court

Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT (Associated Press) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as flames shot from hi...

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Obama Blames Al Qaeda For Christmas Attack (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press HONOLULU — President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist a...

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Airport Security: Everything but Accountability

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

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If employees at the TSA see that there are no career consequences for catastrophic screwups, they will have learned a regrettable lesson: there is no price to be paid for failure.

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Reading the Pictures: Obama the Double Agent?

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

What's to be done about the growing terrorism hysteria spreading through Washington and the corporate media?

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James Jones: National Security Adviser Says Christmas Bomber Report Will 'Shock' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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While President Obama has already spoken about a number of issues that will appear in today's report on the Christmas bomber, National Security Advise...

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Yemen: US Should Have Warned Us About Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab, Airline Bomber

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ and DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN'A, Yemen — Officials in Yemen were investigating Tuesday whether the Nigerian suspected in the attempted Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airl...

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Yemen: Abdulmutallab Met With Radical Cleric

AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN'A, Yemen — Yemen on Thursday provided the most comprehensive account yet of contacts between al-Qaida and the Nigerian accused of trying to ...

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Obama Was Warned Of Holiday Terror Threats

Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US,...

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A Tale of Two Responses

Steve Benen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Let's compare the previous administration's response to a nearly identical terrorist plot -- Richard Reid's failed shoe-bomb attack -- with the recent attempt.

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