Times Square Bombing

Parking Attendants Trained To Watch For Terrorists

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAS VEGAS — Parking attendants and meter maids could be the nation's latest line of defense against terrorist attacks. A new government program...

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White House Counterterrorism Adviser Says Pakistani Taliban Behind Times Square Bomb Plot

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Saying they obtained new evidence, senior White House officials said Sunday that the Pakistani Taliban were behind the failed Times...

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Frum On Lieberman's Citizenship Amendment: A 'Bad Idea'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent push by Sen. Lieberman to amend existing law to make it possible for American citizens to be stripped of their citizenship if they are suspected of having ties to terrorist organizations seems to fulfill no practical need.

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Faisal Shahzad Investigation: Lieberman's Response Is A Solution In Search Of A Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, we noted that the eminently reasonable tone that initially pervaded the entire discussion of the failed Times Square bombing attempt of Ame...

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Bloomberg 'Terror Gap' Argument Shot Down By Pro-Gun GOP Senators

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's appeal to what he called "common sense" at a congressional hearing Wednesday morning failed to sway two Rep...

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Shahzad Reportedly Went To Training Camp In Pakistan

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Times square suspect reportedly trained in Pakistan. Faisal Shahzad has told investigators he received bomb-making training in the Afghanistan-Pakista...

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Lieberman's Citizenship-Revoking Law Slammed As 'Draconian'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) has yet to formally introduce legislation that would strip Americans involved in terrorism of their citizenship and al...

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Faisal Shahzad Arrest: Lieberman Proposes Taking Away Citizenship Of Suspected Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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In arguing against the reading of Miranda rights to terrorism suspects or affording them other constitutional protections, opponents of civil libertie...

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Tausif Ahmed Arrested In Pakistan In Connection With Times Square Bomb Attempt, According To Reports

AP | ASHRAF KHAN and RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have detained several people in connection with the bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, intell...

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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Outraged; Will Call Congress Out On 'Terror Gap'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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With his city still on edge over this weekend's attempted truck-bombing in Times Square, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg heads to Capitol Hill on ...

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Times Square Car Bomb: Fox News Reports Man Arrested In Pakistan In Connection With Bombing Attempt

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: 12:40 PM ET Following on an earlier report by Fox News (below) of an arrest In Pakistan in connection with the Times Square bomb attempt, the...

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Times Square Bomb: ARREST Made

AP | TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Seized from a plane about to fly to the Middle East, a Pakistan-born man admitted training to make bombs at a terrorism camp in his n...

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State Department Terrorist List Presents Problem For Citizenship-Stripping Legislation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sens. Lieberman and Scott Brown and Reps. Jason Altmire and Charlie Dent are a sort of bicameral Never Think Things Through Caucus with their attempt to inject needless delays into the judicial proceedings in order to achieve a cosmetic result.

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Officials: Letters Not Linked to NY Bomb

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — There's apparently no link between the bombing of a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square and letters sent to Cong...

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